Dear Bernhard,
in message 3FD4EE66.6080301@metrowerks.com you wrote:
I have to admit that the coldfire u-boot port was a quick-hack intended as prototype that at least was usefull for me :-)
This is exactly what I though when I saw the code ;-)
Unforntunatly i'm not involved in any Coldfire related development at the moment and pretty busy with other projects, so i won't have the time right now to sort out the issue you have discovered.
Understood.
But i will at least try to provide some usefull comments for each of the items listed below, so that other Coldfire/u-boot users can start cleaning things up, so that the patch will be free of any licencing or technical issues. In this context, please feel free to redistribute this mail to whomever you think it might be usefull for.
I re-sent it to the U-Boot-Users mailing list so others interested in this stuff can pick up from what we have now.
Although certain files are even holding PPC assembly instructions, or other obviously PPC related routines, the bootloader will still compile and work (IMHO pretty well) for the coldfire because the appropriate code will not be compiled (ifdef'ed out) or is just dead code in the resulting binary.
This is what I imageined, but the code init's current form is a mess. It needs to be cleaned up before I'm willing to check it in.
Please provide a doc/README.Coldfire which explains this procedure.
I will add appropriate notes to the existing coldfire specfic installation instruction when the cleanups have been finished.
Thanks.
To be serious: as the file name of the patch indicates, it was intended to be applied for u-boot-0.4.0. I didn't have done anything on it since then ...
Well, actually there is very little difference between applying your patch to U-Boot 0.4.0 or 1.1.0 ...
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As indicated above: i can't afford to spend time on the cleanup work, right now, sorry. However, if somebody is volunteering to do the necessary cleanups, then i will try to assist her or him as good as possible.
OK, so we're looking for a volunteer to cleanup the open issies of the Coldfire port now.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk