[patch 10/10] Bamboo zImage wrapper

David Gibson dwg at au1.ibm.com
Tue Aug 7 13:04:21 EST 2007


On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 07:39:02AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 03:00:12PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:09:10AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > Add a bootwrapper for the AMCC 440EP Bamboo Eval board.  This also adds a
> > > common fixup_clock function for all 440EP(x) chips.
> > 
> > Ok, you have a separate bamboo.c and treeboot-bamboo.c, like with
> > ebony.  However here, therer's only one outermost wrapper -
> > treeboot-bamboo.c which means there's not really any point to this
> > separation.
> 
> Milton already mentioned this the first time I submitted the patch.
> 
> > Do you know if there are Bamboo boards with old u-boot versions, or
> > some other bootloader which would make the separation worthwhile
> > later?
> 
> Yes, there are.  And yes, I plan on submitting the cuboot-bamboo.c
> wrapper just as soon as I get a chance to get my board switched back
> to u-boot.  It's actually pretty trivial to keep both PIBS and
> u-boot on a bamboo board, since you can program u-boot into the
> flash from PIBS and flip some switches to boot from it.

Ok.

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