On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Jon, > > In message <499c58fa.20...@freescale.com> you wrote: > > > > > Trent - you have obviously already spend a lot of effort into > > > analyzing this code - most probably more time than any other of us. > > > Based on your experience and the effort you already spent I think it > > > would be best if you could provided a patch to fix all boards. > > > > Just as a clarification, are you asking Trent to *fix* it > > for all boards, or to generate a patch that will apply to > > all boards? > > He. Of course I can only ask to provide patch that, to the best of > Trent's experience, is supposed to fix the problems. I am aware > thatthere is a chance that it will not work on some boards, but then > it's up to the board maintainers to complain and to help fixing this > (rpobabmly small) number of remaining issues. > > > Specifically, I recall Trent's hesitation was he doesn't have > > access to most boards (not even all PPC boards), and he wasn't > > even sure it was a problem on some other ARCHes in the first place. > > Good point. But which other options do we have? > > We can: > > 1) apply the patch to a small subset of the boards that are known to > be affected (at least all PowerPC boards) > > 2) apply the patch to all boards that are known to be affected (all > PowerPC boards) > > 3) apply the patch to all boards that are most probably affected (all > boards) > > If we go for 1) or even 2), ther eis a pretty high chance that the > problem will byte us later, and until somebody remembers that this > was raised (and fixed) before in another architecture, lots of > efforts will be wasted. > > However, if we now apply a patch that breaks a number of boards we > will quickly learn where the change works and where not. > > In my point of view the risk of a potential damage involved with 3) is > smaller than the probability for damage and the amount of effort cause > by 2) and especially by 1).
I would say apply it to all boards (option 3) and see what broke than fix it. --- ****************************************************************** * k...@home KOI8 Net < > The impossible we do immediately. * * Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. * ****************************************************************** _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
