On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 01:12:14AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> 2015-11-06 22:46 GMT+09:00 Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com>:
> > On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 10:16:30PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >
> >> The latest Linux can directly handle SMP operations for UniPhier SoCs
> >> without any help of U-boot. Drop the relevant code from U-boot.
> >>
> >> See commit b1e4006aeda8c8784029de17d47987c21ea75f6d ("ARM: uniphier:
> >> rework SMP operations to use trampoline code") in Linux Kernel.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com>
> >
> > So my question for you is how much of a concern is running older kernels
> > and newer U-Boots on these platforms? I know that for example we
> > couldn't do something like that in "beagle" land, and for Allwinner
> > platforms we still have ways of making the older but most featureful
> > kernels work.
>
>
> Good question.
>
> Socionext (and my former company, Panasonic) tended to
> modify source code locally (ugly hacks here and there) and never tried
> to push patches to the upstream.
>
> I started the kernel upstreaming this year,
> and the company changed the mind and stared to realize its importance,
> but it is under way.
>
> The mainline kernel requires some more extra patches that have not
> been upstreamed yet.
>
> So, our customers cannot do anything with the mainline kernel alone.
> They are supposed to use software stacks released from us.
>
> So, the combination of the older kernels + newer U-boot does not matter.
> The older kernels were not working in the first place.Thanks! Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> -- Tom
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