[PATCH v2 4/4] powerpc/83xx: Add PCI-E support for all MPC83xx boards with PCI-E

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello,

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Anton Vorontsov
<avorontsov at ru.mvista.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:46:45AM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> [...]
>> > My statement was to convey that the kernel.org kernel should only
>> > worry itself with the denx.de u-boot (w/regards to compatibility).
>>
>> Why?  Unless the BSP u-boots do something insane, I think we should try
>> to have the upstream kernel boot on the u-boot that comes on the board
>> (it's not nice to require users to reflash unnecessarily).
>

The u-boot that came with the boards (at least MPC8315E-RDB) is too
old for 2.6.25+ kernels:

I have run into this earlier:

http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06551.html



Regards,
-- 
Leon