[PATCH 5/6] bootwrapper: Add support for the DINK firmware

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Aug 3 04:15:14 EST 2006


On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:14:22AM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:19:34AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 04:14:21PM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> > 
> > > This patch adds the firmware operations that support the DINK firmware
> > > from Freescale.
> > 
> > This isn't really DINK support (which would mean actually talking
> > back/with DINK,
> 
> You seem to be thinking that this is the final, end-all solution to
> everything.  It isn't.  Its a step in the direction that we are trying
> go (IIUC).  dink.c is about the easiest one there will be.  of.c has a
> slightly more complicated fw_ops.  We still need to figure out what uboot
> needs and what PIBS needs and what...

Right.  I'm just saying that unless you're planning on making this talk
with / use DINK (I swear, the DINK manual talks about this a bit, but
I'm too lazy to look just this second), this isn't the DINK one, this is
the (will be needed and used) bare metal one.

-- 
Tom Rini



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