On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 10:55:20AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
There is several new stuff in the V2 tree, so here is an overview about whats changed:
We'll really encourage people to look into that tree, it'ts really amazing stuff. Next week we'll have a Technology Week with the Pengutronix crew (only net, no phone :-) which will probably be used for heavy u-boot-v2 hacking. So any ideas from the community are welcome!
- Cleaned up the tree. Most board supports and currently not supported architectures and drivers have been removed. Of course it can go back in once it is working again. This step seemed necessary to see what's currently expected to be working and what's not.
I think this is the only sane maintenance strategy. We want to have a clean tree, so anything which is ready for v2 must be reviewed anyway.
- Blackfin support. Currently tested with a BF561, other Blackfins will need some adjustments.
There's still an issue that the BF randomly hangs when "Uncompressing kernel". Maybe the Analog people have an idea?
- Module support. The module support is mainly the same as in the Linux kernel. It is possible to add new commands and drivers via modules so people can extend U-Boot without changing the whole loader. Symbols are exported via EXPORT_SYMBOL, just like in the kernel.
... which is a very cool feature. It is now possible to write extensions to u-boot without having the old object files around.
We'd like to prepare a first numbered snapshot release during the tech week, in order to have a well defined base for people to play with.
Robert