Re: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels

2012-03-07 Thread Albert ARIBAUD
Hi Wolfgang, Le 04/03/2012 09:39, Wolfgang Denk a écrit : Dear Troy Kisky, In message<4f52c327.3080...@boundarydevices.com> you wrote: And which changes 'introduce forward incompatibilities', and what are these incompatibilities? See the recent problems that occurred when RMK decided to "c

Re: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels

2012-03-04 Thread Igor Grinberg
Hi, On 03/04/12 13:09, Stefano Babic wrote: > On 03/03/2012 14:30, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >> Dear Dirk Behme, >> > > Hi, > >> In message <4f52015a.2080...@googlemail.com> you wrote: >>> Agreed. If these patches were only for backward compatibility I would not complain much. But they ar

Re: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels

2012-03-04 Thread Stefano Babic
On 03/03/2012 14:30, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Dirk Behme, > Hi, > In message <4f52015a.2080...@googlemail.com> you wrote: >> >>> Agreed. If these patches were only for backward compatibility I would >>> not complain much. But they are known to introduce forward incompati- >>> bilities with

Re: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels

2012-03-04 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Troy Kisky, In message <4f52c327.3080...@boundarydevices.com> you wrote: > > >> And which changes 'introduce forward incompatibilities', and what are > >> these incompatibilities? > > See the recent problems that occurred when RMK decided to "clean up" > > the machids file. > > > Would you ra

Re: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels

2012-03-03 Thread Troy Kisky
On 3/3/2012 6:30 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear Dirk Behme, In message<4f52015a.2080...@googlemail.com> you wrote: Agreed. If these patches were only for backward compatibility I would not complain much. But they are known to introduce forward incompati- bilities with all this MACH_ID stuff,

Re: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels

2012-03-03 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Dirk Behme, In message <4f52015a.2080...@googlemail.com> you wrote: > > > Agreed. If these patches were only for backward compatibility I would > > not complain much. But they are known to introduce forward incompati- > > bilities with all this MACH_ID stuff, and this is what I would like

Re: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels

2012-03-03 Thread Dirk Behme
Dear Wolfgang, On 03.03.2012 10:38, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear Dirk, In message<4f51bba9.4090...@googlemail.com> you wrote: Having Freescale working on these quite old and unclean U-Boot and Kernel versions is a pain. Kernel is an other topic, but with U-Boot, thanks to the very good work of

Re: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels

2012-03-03 Thread mailander
On 03/03/2012 10:38, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Dirk, > > In message <4f51bba9.4090...@googlemail.com> you wrote: >> >> Having Freescale working on these quite old and unclean U-Boot and >> Kernel versions is a pain. Kernel is an other topic, but with U-Boot, >> thanks to the very good work of

Re: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels

2012-03-03 Thread Stefano Babic
On 03/03/2012 00:25, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Eric Nelson, > > In message > <1330728909-12203-1-git-send-email-eric.nel...@boundarydevices.com> you wrote: >> This series of patches is needed to allow main-line U-Boot to be used >> with Freescale's Linux 2.6.38 non-DT kernel releases. >> >> The

Re: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels

2012-03-03 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Dirk, In message <4f51bba9.4090...@googlemail.com> you wrote: > > Having Freescale working on these quite old and unclean U-Boot and > Kernel versions is a pain. Kernel is an other topic, but with U-Boot, > thanks to the very good work of everybody, we are in a good position > to get rid

Re: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels

2012-03-03 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Eric Nelson, In message <4f515bf1.9030...@boundarydevices.com> you wrote: > > I think new code is still being written for 2.6.38, so it may be obsolete, > but not necessarily old. It definitely is old - Linux mainline has seen 50240 commits since v2.6.38, with 3243564 lines added and 2329522

Re: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels

2012-03-02 Thread Dirk Behme
Dear Wolfgang, On 03.03.2012 00:25, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear Eric Nelson, In message<1330728909-12203-1-git-send-email-eric.nel...@boundarydevices.com> you wrote: This series of patches is needed to allow main-line U-Boot to be used with Freescale's Linux 2.6.38 non-DT kernel releases. The

Re: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels

2012-03-02 Thread Fabio Estevam
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Eric Nelson wrote: > These small patches will be a big help to those of us who need to > support both though, and it's not yet clear how long the kernel > transition will take. Agree. It would be extremely helpful if we could run FSL kernel with mainline U-boot.

Re: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels

2012-03-02 Thread Eric Nelson
On 03/02/2012 04:25 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear Eric Nelson, In message<1330728909-12203-1-git-send-email-eric.nel...@boundarydevices.com> you wrote: This series of patches is needed to allow main-line U-Boot to be used with Freescale's Linux 2.6.38 non-DT kernel releases. These releases c

Re: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels

2012-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Eric Nelson, In message <1330728909-12203-1-git-send-email-eric.nel...@boundarydevices.com> you wrote: > This series of patches is needed to allow main-line U-Boot to be used > with Freescale's Linux 2.6.38 non-DT kernel releases. > > These releases currently require at least the machine ty

Re: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels

2012-03-02 Thread Marek Vasut
> This series of patches is needed to allow main-line U-Boot to be used > with Freescale's Linux 2.6.38 non-DT kernel releases. > > These releases currently require at least the machine type and > revision atag entries and are configured to load boot scripts from > the ext3 filesystem. > Almost

[U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels

2012-03-02 Thread Eric Nelson
This series of patches is needed to allow main-line U-Boot to be used with Freescale's Linux 2.6.38 non-DT kernel releases. These releases currently require at least the machine type and revision atag entries and are configured to load boot scripts from the ext3 filesystem. __