Le 13/06/2017 à 07:26, Christophe LEROY a écrit :
There was for long time no activity in the 8xx area. We need to go further and convert to Kconfig, but it turned out, nobody is interested anymore in 8xx, so remove it (with a heavy heart, knowing that I remove here the root of U-Boot).
Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher hs@denx.de
Please don't do that.
As you can see in Linux kernel activity, there have been a lot activity related to the 8xx, including but not limited to: 1/ HW Crypto for the 885 (Talitos SEC1) 2/ TX NAPI in the 8xx Ethernet driver 3/ Scatter/Gather support in the 8xx Ethernet driver 4/ Hugepages 5/ Perf events 6/ hw breakpoints 7/ Linear memory mapping via Large TLBs
The followings links give an overview of the activity:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/log/... https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/log/... https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/log/... https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/log/...
We have thousands of boards with mpc885 running and requiring support for at least the next 10 years.
How can the 8xx survive without U-boot support ?
Christophe