On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Lalancette, Christopher clalancette@irobot.com wrote:
Hello John, I'm currently working on bringing up a new OMAP4 board that is similar in many respects to the pandaboard. While playing around with the panda, I've noticed that upstream u-boot (from denx.de) has several problems, starting with getting the USB/Ethernet hub up and running. Additionally, I've noticed that the u-boot-linaro-stable tree seems to work well on the same hardware.
Is there currently a plan for upstreaming some of the patches that are currently being carried in u-boot-linaro-stable? If you needed some help with this, I think I could find a bit of time to help out, though I would only be able to personally test OMAP4 patches. Before starting anything, though, I wanted to check in to see if there was a plan or if this work was ongoing.
Hi Chris,
Yes help would be wonderful. The patches that make usb work were "orphaned" by the original contributer and I grabbed them and made them work for me. They need extra clean up to go upstream which I have not had time todo. I will be doing a new u-boot-linaro-stable once upstream v2011.12 comes out. At that time it would be great if you could grab the relevant patches, clean them up and send upstream. I have no plans to do this right now so if you want to do it that would be fantastic.
I'll ping you when I have a new -stable tree working. If you don't notice on your own.
--john