Hi Prafulla,

You comments are very clear and helpful.  I'll try to get the v3 patch
in sometime over the weekend.

thanks & regards,

Dave

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Prafulla Wadaskar <prafu...@marvell.com> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Purdy [mailto:david.c.pu...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: 14 March 2012 23:32
>> To: Prafulla Wadaskar
>> Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de; albert.u.b...@aribaud.net
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kirkwood: add support for Cloud Engines
>> Pogoplug E02
>>
>> Thank you Prafulla,
>>
>> I supplied 4 responses and some questions ...
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Prafulla Wadaskar
>> <prafu...@marvell.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: David C. Purdy [mailto:david.c.pu...@gmail.com]
>> >> Sent: 14 March 2012 05:47
>> >> To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
>> >> Cc: Prafulla Wadaskar; albert.u.b...@aribaud.net
>> >> Subject: [PATCH v2] kirkwood: add support for Cloud Engines
>> Pogoplug
>> >> E02
>> >>
>> >> [PATCH v2] add support for Cloud Engines Pogoplug E02
>> >>
>> >> This patch adds support for Cloud Engines Pogoplug E02.
>> >
>>
>> 1.
>> > May you please add here a pointer of the board information here?
>>
>> Will this suffice for pointer regarding board information:
>>
>> http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/pogoplug-v2-pinkgray
>>
>> ... or do you need something more specific?  (not sure what level of
>> detail you wish)
>
> I think this is enough, please add this link for your next patch version in 
> the patch description.
>
>>
>> >
>>
>>
>> 2.
>> > May you please explain how different this board is if compared to
>> Sheevaplug, Guruplug, DreamPlug ?
>>
>> Sheevaplug      - 512MB NAND, 512MB RAM, USB, SD card slot & other
>> differences
>> Guruplug          - 512MB NAND, 512MB RAM, USB, SATA & other
>> differences
>> Dreamplug        - 2MB NAND, 512MB RAM, Audio, USB, eSATA & other
>> differences
>> Pogoplug E02   - 128MB NAND, 256MB RAM, USB
>>
>>
>> ... actually it is probably closest to the Seagate Dockstar (which is
>> supported in U-Boot stable since 2010.12 IIRC), but there are enough
>> differences that the Dockstar's u-boot binary will not work correctly
>> in the Pogoplug E02.
>
> So in this case, can you use boards/Seagate/dockstar/kwbimage.cfg instead of 
> creating one more similar file?
>
> You rest of code will remain as it is.
>
>>
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: David Purdy <david.c.pu...@gmail.com>
>> >> Cc: prafu...@marvell.com
>> >> Cc: albert.u.b...@aribaud.net
>> >> ---
>> >> Changes for v2:
>> >>     - added MAINTAINERS info for pogoplug_e02
>> >>     - fixed format to ensure capture of all files in path
>> >>
>> >>   MAINTAINERS                                    |    4 +
>> >>   board/cloudengines/pogoplug_e02/Makefile       |   49 +++++++
>> >>   board/cloudengines/pogoplug_e02/kwbimage.cfg   |  165
>> >
>>
>> 3.
>> > Is this file 100% clone of existing file on the repository? Or you
>> have modified it further for your board, if not, you can reuse the old
>> one.
>>
>> I may make some modest/minor modifications to it in the future.
>> Perhaps in the GPIO section.
>>
>> For that reason I'd like the pogoE02 to have its own.
>> Does that sound OK?
>
> Intention here is to avoid duplicate code, the framework is created to 
> support this, if kwbimage.cfg can be reused from dockstart project, we can 
> add little code to support your board, in future if there are expansion and 
> updates you can have your own.
>
>>
>>
>> >
>> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >>   board/cloudengines/pogoplug_e02/pogoplug_e02.c |  148
>> >> +++++++++++++++++++++
>> >>   board/cloudengines/pogoplug_e02/pogoplug_e02.h |   46 +++++++
>> >>   boards.cfg                                     |    1 +
>> >>   include/configs/pogoplug_e02.h                 |  123
>> >> ++++++++++++++++++
>> >>   7 files changed, 536 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> >>   create mode 100644 board/cloudengines/pogoplug_e02/Makefile
>> >>   create mode 100644 board/cloudengines/pogoplug_e02/kwbimage.cfg
>> >>   create mode 100644 board/cloudengines/pogoplug_e02/pogoplug_e02.c
>> >>   create mode 100644 board/cloudengines/pogoplug_e02/pogoplug_e02.h
>> >>   create mode 100644 include/configs/pogoplug_e02.h
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> >> index 46f63a0..ae65ff3 100644
>> >> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> >> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> >> @@ -793,6 +793,10 @@ Stelian Pop <stel...@popies.net>
>> >>       at91sam9263ek   ARM926EJS (AT91SAM9263 SoC)
>> >>       at91sam9rlek    ARM926EJS (AT91SAM9RL SoC)
>> >>
>> >> +Dave Purdy <david.c.pu...@gmail.com>
>> >> +
>> >> +     pogoplug_e02    ARM926EJS (Kirkwood SoC)
>> >> +
>> >
>>
>>
>> 3.
>> > Please maintain the order here?
>> >
>> >>   Thierry Reding <thierry.red...@avionic-design.de>
>> >>
>> >>       plutux          Tegra2 (ARM7 & A9 Dual Core)
>>
>> I'm not at all sure I understand you there.  Alphabetically:  Pop,
>> Purdy, Reding...
>> all in the ARM section..
>
> I think you are right here, the MAINTAINERs file structure is bit confusing 
> at some places, mostly order is maintained by second name and you are right 
> here.
>
>>
>>
>>
>> >> +#endif /* __POGOPLUG_E02_H */
>> >> diff --git a/boards.cfg b/boards.cfg
>> >> index 28cc345..3cdf17e 100644
>> >> --- a/boards.cfg
>> >> +++ b/boards.cfg
>> >> @@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ openrd_ultimate              arm
>> arm926ejs
>> >> openrd              Marvell
>> >>   rd6281a                      arm         arm926ejs   -
>> >> Marvell        kirkwood
>> >>   sheevaplug                   arm         arm926ejs   -
>> >> Marvell        kirkwood
>> >>   dockstar                     arm         arm926ejs   -
>> >> Seagate        kirkwood
>> >> +pogoplug_e02                 arm         arm926ejs   -
>> >> cloudengines   Kirkwood
>> >
>>
>> 4.
>> > Please maintain an order here too.
>> >
>> Yes, I see.  If I understand you, this would become:
>>
>> calimain                     arm         arm926ejs   calimain
>>   omicron        davinci
>> pogoplug_e02                 arm         arm926ejs   -
>>   cloudengines   kirkwood
>> dns325                       arm         arm926ejs   -
>>   d-link         Kirkwood
>
> Yes, that's correct.
>
> Regards..
> Prafulla . ..
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