From: Morgan 張明鈿 [mailto:mingdien.chang@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 4:52 PM To: Macpaul Chih-Pin Lin(林智斌) Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v5] nds32: Add NDS32 architecture support (header files)

Hi, Macpaul I noticed the patches in the U-Boot mailing list for the nds32

architecture which I

am trying to port.

Hi, Morgan,

I'm glad to see you have noticed that the patches commit to u-boot mainline is undergoing. I also guess the old andesboot (prior version of u-boot) we've provided was not enough for your purpose.

1st, please add "u-boot@lists.denx.de" into the CC list on each e-mail trasaction so that every developer of u-boot could involve the disscussion and help you.

2nd, I'm curious that your company or organization might be one of our customers, could you tell me whom you're working for? So that our company could provide you better service on u-boot related issues.

3rd, because every developer on u-boot project is busy doing code revise for ARM arch in recent. So I invite you to help on code review on the mailing list. Because your help on code review, those patches will be accepted ASAP to the u-boot project. Just test the patches and reply the patch to the mailing list with "Acked-by: mingdien.chang@gmail.com" could help,

Is the series of patches (v1 to v5) increamental ? Should I apply v1 first, and then v2, v3, till v5 ? If so, what is base revision to which v1 patch is applied ? Thanks for your help. Morgan

Let me explain for you, the patch version v1 to v5 just tagged for the revision for the same single "patch". So you just need to apply the latest patch you have. Please do not take care about the v1-v4 patches. The latest patch includes the latest update against to the main trunk (master) source code.

If you have furthor questions, please reply on the mailing list. Hope we can work this out together.

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On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Macpaul Lin macpaul@andestech.com

wrote:

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This patch add generic header files support for nds32 architecture. Cache, ptregs, data type and other definitions are included. NDS32 is a new 32-bit RISC architecture invented by andestech.com. NDS32 also provide N9, N10, N12 different CPU core families for

soft-core

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and hard-core SoC design. Note: Empty headers such as config.h, memory.h, processor.h are necessary for compiling some device drivers. Otherwise those drivers won't be build.

Best regards, Macpaul Lin