On 26 October 2026 18:30:10 GMT, Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote: >On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 05:27:05PM +0000, Bradley Morgan wrote: >> On 26 October 2026 17:23:32 GMT, Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote: >> >On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 05:00:19PM +0000, Bradley Morgan wrote: >> >> On 26 October 2026 16:58:47 GMT, Bradley Morgan ><[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >> >On 26 October 2026 16:55:09 GMT, Tomas Alvarez Vanoli >> >> ><[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>>> >> >> >>>>Hi all, >> >> >>>> >> >> >>>>Just a data point from a user: we are using U-Boot on a T1040 >(QorIQ >> >/ >> >> >>>>mpc85xx) in a product, and we intend to keep up with mainline as >> >much >> >> >as >> >> >>>>we can. We'd appreciate PowerPC support staying in tree, and >we're >> >> >happy >> >> >>>>to test patches on T1040 hardware and report back. >> >> >>>>We run u-boot in 32-bit mode (not sure if it is possible to use >> >64-bit) >> >> >>>>and >> >> >>>>linux in 64-bit. >> >> >>>>I am in the process of bringing it up to our 2025.07 branch and >> >> >>>>potentially >> >> >>>>mainlining as much as possible. We have some remnants of it under >> >> >>>>`board/keymile/kmcent2`. >> >> >>> >> >> >>>Would T1042D4RDB affect you? >> >> >> >> >> >>Not directly from what I see in the code, as long as the shared >code >> >with >> >> >>ARCH_T1040 is kept. Sorry for the false alarm, just wanted to >report >> >that >> >> >>there are dozens of us using powerpc :) >> >> > >> >> >What you could do if you would like is to test the whole series to >see >> >if >> >> >it unaffected you. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >Btw tom I had a idea: you merge Vincent's bug fix and my maintainers >> >> >patch,you make a PowerPC custodian tree, and I handle the series and >> >the >> >> >naks and stuff and the comments. >> >> >> >> and btw yes I'll make the pr with the finished patches so you can >merge >> >> them cleanly >> > >> >Trees are relatively cheap, but I'm not sure we need another one either >> >for the subset of formerly-Freescale and not-QorIQ PowerPC parts. Since >> >I added you to the fsl-qoriq tree, you can also just pick up the >> >outstanding fixes and your maintainer patches (and leave dropping stuff >> >for now, as this series shows today we're just getting people having a >> >chance to see and reply to this stuff) and send me a PR. Thanks. >> >> Hi, sorry, I didn't clarify enough, so I had a chat for some people from >> the open src firmware slack, yes? >> >> And here is their answer >> >> "Ah, Peng Fan maintains the FSL QoriQ tree: >> https://git.u-boot-project.org/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-fsl-qoriq >> >> That is the vendor one though. >> So yea, I'd go with a general PowerPC tree. >> >> Also because QoriQ is both Arm and PPC series. :sweat_smile:" >> >> And even my slopper suggests the tree, for sanity purposes :D > >Fine, trees are still cheap. There's u-boot-ppc now. But please keep in >mind everything else I said, thanks.
Thx. Question: will you merge the maintainers patch on this PR, so I can focus on my add-on maintainers patch and the removals? > > --- Thanks!
