The sbc8641d is not really a state of the art board anymore, but it does have the distinctive feature of being one of the relatively few SMP powerpc boards around. Combined with its small form factor, it remains a useful testing platform. So here we enable the generic board support so that it can remain in tree.
One note worthy of mention is that the same commit that breaks[1] the sbc8548 board [commit 294b91a58171 ("Set up stdio earlier when using driver model")] also breaks this board in the identical way (hangs at "Net:" line during bootup). So the baseline for run time testing was one commit prior to that commit that introduced the regressions.
The fixes are all board specific and a branch off 294b91a58171~ will merge seamlessly to master, or they can be applied to master; whenever the regressions of 294b91a58171 are resolved then things will work again on the tip of tree.
[1] https://www.marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=142655649417364&w=3
Paul Gortmaker (5): sbc8641d: enable command line editing sbc8641d: increase malloc pool size to a sane default sbc8641d: set proper environment sector size. sbc8641d: add basic flash setup instructions to README file sbc8641d: enable and test CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD
board/sbc8641d/README | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ include/configs/sbc8641d.h | 7 +++++-- 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)