Hi Wolfgang,
On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 11:22:17 +0200 Wolfgang Denk <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Masahiro, > > In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > > > > Correct. In some (really old) kernel versions this was the way to pass > > > this information to the kernel, so we neede dit there. > > > > > > > I suspect the reason it is in global_data is that the bd_t structure > > > > doesn't exist until some time after the console is started up, so it > > > > wouldn't be possible to do serial output otherwise. > > > > > > Also correct. > > > > > > > Thanks. > > Sadly, it looks like we should keep both of the two. > > I'm not so sure. As mentioned, this was used in really old kernel > versions only. I remember it for the Power archtecture, where only > the pre-devicetree kernel versions (i. e. 2.4.x) used this. OK, I > know of a number of projeects which are still using such old kernbel > versions, but these are also using ancient U-Boot versions. > > I don't think we have to keep support for ancient kernels in current > U-Boot. Eventually we may drop it. As a matter of fact, I had prepared a patch when I got replies from you guys. I've post it as RFC, just in case. (I confirmed no boards broken at least build test.) I am not sure if it can be dropped either. Anyway, I follow Tom's decesion. Best Regards Masahiro Yamada _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
