[PATCH] powerpc/83xx: Make serial ports work on MPC8315E-RDB w/FSL U-Boots
Leon Woestenberg
leon.woestenberg at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 04:20:07 EST 2009
Hello,
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:55 AM, Li Yang wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>> Freescale BSP is for customer who needs the out-of-box experience. It's
>> better tested, but doesn't update very frequently. I would suggest the
>> customer to use the upstream u-boot, if they decide to use latest
>> upstream kernel.
>>
>
The upstream u-boot did however not support PCI Express, which the
latest Freescale kernel did.
So it was a chicken-egg problem experience for people wanting to test
both the latest Freescale kernel as well as Antov's work to bring the
PCI Express support upstream.
Thanks Antov et al,
--
Leon
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