David,
Matthew's patch is based of commit f18889c2f1... Jan 17 09:35:26 2008 +0100 Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://10.10.0.7/home/wd/git/u-boot/master. When you cloned the latest as today, there are dozen of patches since then, so the patches show errors when you applied.
First, you create a new branch based of master if you use the main stream branch. git-branch newbranch master. Change your branch to newbranch. git-checkout newbranch. Reset to the commit mentioned above. git-reset --hard f18889c2f1... Update the two patches from Matthew (Make sure no unwrap text and unix file format) git-apply --whitespace=strip patch. Use git-add to apply all the new files just added, then temporary create a commit git-commit (Otherwise, rebase won't work). To merge with updated u-boot. git-rebase master newbranch. There maybe other methods to apply the patch, but this is the method I used so far.
Hope this help.
Regards, TsiChung