Warp patches for 2.6.26
Dale Farnsworth
dale at farnsworth.org
Fri Apr 18 02:08:04 EST 2008
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:50:45AM -0400, Sean MacLennan wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:13:16 -0700
> "Dale Farnsworth" <dale at farnsworth.org> wrote:
>
> > Each patch needs to be standalone. you need to add a header
> > describing what the patch is intended to accomplish. Being more
> > descriptive is better than less. Also, as Stephen said, make sure
> > that the subject of each email containing a patch is descriptive and
> > reasonably unique within the entire kernel.
>
> Splitting up the patches would be very error prone. I would have to
> basically do all the editing by hand.
I didn't suggest splitting the patches or further modification of the
patches themselves. What I found lacking were the patch descriptions.
You need to describe in each patch (commit) commentary exactly what
the patch is intended to accomplish, and the rationale behind it.
> I also think I am not being clear enough. Basically what is currently
> in the mainline is platform code for a Rev A board with minimal FPGA
> functionality, since that is what we had at the time.
>
> These patches, I should probably merge them into one patch, bring the
> platform code up to a Rev B board with a more complete FPGA load. (I
> say more complete because FPGA loads are never complete ;)
>
> These patches only affect the Warp. Ignoring the LED and WDT patches,
> you have to have all the changes to get a working Rev B. You can't just
> put in the DTM changes or just put in the NAND changes.
>
> I listed 8 changes, but three are for NAND, and four are for DTM. I
> could compress them down:
>
> Updated platform code to support Rev B boards.
> * Switched from 64M NOR/64M NAND to 4M NOR/256M NAND.
> * Fully functional DTM.
> * Added POST information.
> * Removed LED function, moved to new LED driver.
>
> Now, the POST function and the removed LED function could be separate
> patches I guess, but it hardly seems worth it. The LED function was
> never used except in temporary debug code.
>
> > For example, instead of "WDT driver", as a minimum something like:
> > "[POWERPC] warp: Add WDT driver".
>
> Ok, that I can do.
-Dale
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