On 10/19/2015 04:54 PM, Francois Retief wrote:
Hallo Daniel,
-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Hellstrom [mailto:daniel@gaisler.com] Sent: 18 October 2015 11:30 PM To: Masahiro Yamadayamada.masahiro@socionext.com Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Remove sparc archiecture?
On 10/18/2015 05:20 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
(+CC Francois)
2015-10-18 21:24 GMT+09:00 Tom Rinitrini@konsulko.com:
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 06:19:16AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi,
It looks like sparc has no maintainer and has not been converted to generic board. Should we remove it?
Well, not quite "no maintainer", but... Daniel? SPARC is in need of some work (and possibly a new toolchain too, I stopped building it all the time due to a false positive warning the 3.4.4 toolchain I have gives). Thanks!
-- Tom
I see generic board work for SPARC
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404616/ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404618/ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404617/ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404619/ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404620/ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404622/ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404621/ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404624/ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404623/
but, Daniel was not responding...
Perhaps, replace the maintainer if Francois agrees?
I regret to say that I've been too busy last two years and I don't see a change during 2015 either.
I would not like to see the SPARC port removed now that the LEON community grows as new LEON3 and LEON4 chips comes to market. WIth multi-core and higher frequency there is a growing interest in u-boot from the LEON community.
Nowadays there are LEON GCC targets mcpu=leon,leon3,leon3v7 so it should be possible to setup a working toolchain based on GCC-4.9 which we use for Linux and RTEMS. In the past I've used a GCC-4.4 toolchain from Cobham Gaisler.
If Francois agrees it is probably a good idea to let him take over the SPARC as he has put work into both BSP and architecture. Although I would like to acknowledge my interest in u-boot and I hope and believe that my efforts will be resumed in the future. Francois, if you feel it is too much a temporary replacement could also be an option if the u-boot project allows it.
Yes, I am willing to take over as maintainer until such time that Daniel is ready to resume his effort in future. We are investing in the LEON as archtecture and would like to see U-Boot support for SPARC continuing into the future.
Thanks!
Daniel, I would just like to ask if you could stay on as an advisor, if at all possible. I have only access to one LEON3FT board at the moment and may require advice on other devices as time goes by. I will try to keep questions consise and as infrequent as possible for you.
I'm on parental leave until January, but I'll do my best.
Regards, Daniel
Will rebase my patch set to the latest release this week and resend them for review. Masahiro, what version of GCC is prefered (if any) for the next release of U-Boot. I am currently using the GCC-4.4 toolchain from Cobham Gaisler.
Regards, Francois
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