Procedure for the send review on u-boot patch

[Joel Stanley]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 06:54, Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> wrote:

> > I think everyone doing AST2400/AST2500 work has been copying from existing
> > systems and still pointing to the v2016.07 branch that we have working in the
> > tree.
>
> Where possible I review for this. If there's a way for gerrit to tell
> me when a new machine is added I'd enforce it more often.
>
> I've mentioned on the list before that I'd welcome a change that flips
> the default to the new tree. That would require setting
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_u-boot for all existing aspeed 2400/2500 machines
> that don't have it set, and then changing meta-aspeed.

I've given this a go:

https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/q/topic:aspeed-u-boot-default

I did some boot tests of yosemitev2 and romulus in qemu and all looked fine.

Next step would be to convert the EVB to the new u-boot, and perhaps
some of the prominent machines that people use to base their new
systems, on so they start on the right track.