"Mark A. Greer" <[email protected]> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 02:18:42PM +0530, Sudhakar Rajashekhara wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 00:19:05, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> > "Mark A. Greer" <[email protected]> writes:
>> > 
>> > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 06:10:41PM +0530, Sudhakar Rajashekhara wrote:
>> > >> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 02:40:04, Mark A. Greer wrote:
>
>> > >> Are you trying to align with the OOB layout being followed in U-Boot?
>> > >
>> > > Yes.  That and to match what both TI and MV have been supporting for
>> > > quite a while.
>> > >
>> > >> U-Boot for da830/omap-l137 is not in mainline yet. I am planning to
>> > >> start working on that shortly. We can re-visit this when da830/omap-l137
>> > >> support is present in u-boot.
>> > >
>> > > Hmm, okay...
>> > >
>> > > So what about all the platforms that are already out there?
>> > >
>> > > Even if it changes, I'd recommend the driver patch [1/2] still go
>> > > in so that the functionality is there if/when its ever needed (and
>> > > its a really simple patch).  I can alway redo the platform patch [2/2].
>> > 
>> > I'll apply 1/1 today.
>> > 
>> > Sudhakar, for 2/2, what's the reason to wait for u-boot support to go
>> > upstream.  Is the u-boot support going to change?  If most folks are using
>> > recent u-boot anyways, it seems that this should get merged as well. 
>> > 
>> 
>> Kevin,
>> 
>> Existing u-boot for da8xx was based on u-boot for DM355/DM365 but u-boot
>> for DM355/DM365 has changed in mainline so I expect that u-boot for da8xx
>> is also going to change. Also, there may be some users which are using the
>> old u-boot for DM355/DM365 and this kind of patch is required for those
>> platforms as well. Of course it can be a different patch.
>
> What if we applied the patch so systems with the current u-boot work
> and then worry about how to disable it when the new u-boot is ready
> (e.g., CONFIG_ option or ...).

This is fine with me.

Sudhakar, any objections?

Kevin

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