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.
Thanks,