On 10/19/2015 04:54 PM, Francois Retief wrote:
Hallo Daniel,
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Hellstrom [mailto:dan...@gaisler.com]
Sent: 18 October 2015 11:30 PM
To: Masahiro Yamada<yamada.masah...@socionext.com>
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Remove sparc archiecture?
On 10/18/2015 05:20 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
(+CC Francois)
2015-10-18 21:24 GMT+09:00 Tom Rini<tr...@konsulko.com>:
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 06:19:16AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi,
It looks like sparc has no maintainer and has not been converted to
generic board. Should we remove it?
Well, not quite "no maintainer", but... Daniel? SPARC is in need of
some work (and possibly a new toolchain too, I stopped building it all
the time due to a false positive warning the 3.4.4 toolchain I have
gives). Thanks!
--
Tom
I see generic board work for SPARC
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404616/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404618/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404617/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404619/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404620/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404622/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404621/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404624/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404623/
but, Daniel was not responding...
Perhaps, replace the maintainer if Francois agrees?
I regret to say that I've been too busy last two years and I don't see a
change during 2015 either.
I would not like to see the SPARC port removed now that the LEON
community grows as new LEON3 and LEON4 chips comes to market. WIth
multi-core and higher frequency there is a growing interest in u-boot
from the LEON community.
Nowadays there are LEON GCC targets mcpu=leon,leon3,leon3v7 so it should
be possible to setup a working toolchain based on GCC-4.9 which we use
for Linux and RTEMS. In the past I've used a GCC-4.4 toolchain from
Cobham Gaisler.
If Francois agrees it is probably a good idea to let him take over the
SPARC as he has put work into both BSP and architecture. Although I
would like to acknowledge my interest in u-boot and I hope and believe
that my efforts will be resumed in the future. Francois, if you feel it
is too much a temporary replacement could also be an option if the
u-boot project allows it.
Yes, I am willing to take over as maintainer until such time that Daniel is
ready
to resume his effort in future. We are investing in the LEON as archtecture and
would like to see U-Boot support for SPARC continuing into the future.
Thanks!
Daniel, I would just like to ask if you could stay on as an advisor, if at all
possible.
I have only access to one LEON3FT board at the moment and may require advice
on other devices as time goes by. I will try to keep questions consise and as
infrequent as possible for you.
I'm on parental leave until January, but I'll do my best.
Regards,
Daniel
Will rebase my patch set to the latest release this week and resend them for
review.
Masahiro, what version of GCC is prefered (if any) for the next release of
U-Boot.
I am currently using the GCC-4.4 toolchain from Cobham Gaisler.
Regards,
Francois
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