On 08/27/2012 10:46 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > 2012/8/27 Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>: >> Can you tell me, how I can find author of [01]19-fix-boot.patch? >> >> I really wish this patch to be mainlined, but I don't understand that >> ".fill 0x400". I wish someone who wrote this code to send it mainline. >> Personally I just case about >> select BOOT_RAW >> which is needed for WNDR4500 to boot from flash. > > Paul let me know about "git log -S" which is just great. It pointed to the: > > commit 2a29cc5f9fca8b22073b7c706184d2a3dfc5e15e > Author: hauke <hauke@3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73> > Date: Thu Apr 7 21:38:41 2011 +0000 > > brcm47xx: add initial support for kernel 2.6.38 > > > git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@26524 > 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73 > > > Hauke: is that your patch? > > I got info from Paul that this BOOT_RAW is machine specific, and can't > be just enabled by default. Is that right? :/ > Hi,
this patch is based on an other patch which was in generic till kernel version 2.6.36 [0]. I have too less knowledge about mips in general and do not know why this patch is needed, that's the reason it is not upstream yet. Hauke [0]: https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/target/linux/generic/patches-2.6.36/011-mips_boot.patch?rev=30179 _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
