At IRC we had a short discussion what might be the best way how to go on with OMAP3 patch series. We are now at version 5 of this patch set, unfortunately there are still review comments open [1]. On the other hand, from reviewer point of view, sending patch series again and again (v6, v7, ...) would need always a complete re-review as reviewer can't be sure that no new changes slipped into already reviewed patch parts.
Therefore, Jean-Christophe kindly offered to create an u-boot-arm-omap3 git branch with v5 patch set just sent. We see several advantages:
First, the patch set is more visible for people able to test and hopefully willing to help sending patches. Second, only patches to fix the open/new review results have to be send to the list and not whole patch series. Third, this will avoid need for re-review of whole patch series as only the (smaller) fixes have to be reviewed, not the whole series again. And fourth, just in case I will disappear, the branch can be just deleted if there is no progress to make it mainline ready (in contrast to adding OMAP3 now to mainline and trusting that I will fix the remaining issues in mainline).
Once we think that OMAP3 patch set in u-boot-arm-omap3 branch is ready for mainline, it will be extracted (e.g. by git-rebase -i) and resend for final inclusion/review to U-Boot list again. This will avoid git pollution with "fix style here" "fix style there" commits.
Thanks for your patience and help, best regards
Dirk
[1] Review comments still open:
1) Use readx/writex with base + offset with base being e.g. from uint32_t. NAND driver gpmc_omap.c is already (hopefully correctly) converted to this style and can be taken as example.
2) For start.S, function cpu_init_crit():
cpu_init_crit: "why create function that could be call from c also" cpu_init_crit: "why create function that could be call from c also this could be availlable for all cache/mmu/interruptions function"
Jean-Christophe likes that this code can be called from C, too.
3) Replace all hard coded values with macros.
The main places I know are
- misc_init_r() in the board files (evm.c, overo.c, beagle.c) - dpll_param tables in lowlevel_init.S (to be done like core_dpll_param) - do_sdrc_init() in mem.c
x) Hopefully all other comments are already fixed. More review comments are welcome