On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 09:37:40AM +0200, Heiko Schocher wrote:
Hello Christophe,
Am 13.06.2017 um 07:40 schrieb Christophe LEROY:
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.
Tom already applied the patch to mainline ...
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
Thats linux ... not u-boot!
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.
Ok, nice to hear!
How can the 8xx survive without U-boot support ?
Tom asked (I think a lot of times) regarding converting mpc8xx to Kconfig / DM and nobody did the necessary steps. We also asked our customers if they can do the necessary changes, none was interested.
So, if you need mpc8xx support in U-Boot, simply add it again with Kconfig and DM support included!
To be clear, you can also drop out the parts you don't need, but, yes, I would be happy to see someone actively maintain the mpc8xx support. Thanks!