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,
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
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 17:17 -0700, John Rigby wrote:
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 thatare 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.
OK, great. I'll take a closer look at those patches and see what I can do to make it more palatable to upstream. I'll also want to get the patches for OMAP4460 upstream, as our board is based on that and SPL doesn't even start with current u-boot upstream.
I'll ping you when I have a new -stable tree working. If you don't notice on your own.
Yeah, a direct ping would be appreciated. I try to keep up, but there is just too much mail sometimes :).
Thanks,
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Lalancette, Christopher