[meta-freescale] Updates for meta-fsl-arm in 2013-08-06

[Post Lauren-RAA013]

Freescale is working to upstream these changes to 2013.10 version.

-----Original Message-----
From: otavio.salvador at gmail.com [mailto:otavio.salvador at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Otavio Salvador
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 1:15 PM
To: Fabio Estevam
Cc: meta-freescale at yoctoproject.org; Post Lauren-RAA013
Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] Updates for meta-fsl-arm in 2013-08-06

Hello Fabio,

I am adding Lauren to the Cc as she has made this patch for upstreaming.

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>
>>     Change-Id: I83515b530032bd9f03649983b647a5339cd75305
>>     Signed-off-by: Lauren Post <lauren.post at freescale.com>
>>
>> commit ea3677ee6a2b5941305703142196daf1919c45f4
>> Author: Lauren Post <lauren.post at freescale.com>
>> Date:   Fri Jul 19 13:02:33 2013 -0500
>>
>>     u-boot-imx: Add version to 2013.04
>
> Hmmm, too bad: we are in 2013.07 now :-)

Well, the u-boot-fslc is at 2013.07 but u-boot-imx now has two.

>>     Add some commits over 2013.04 that includes:
>>     * Add CPU temperature support
>>     * Add i2c support for imx6qsabresd
>
> This should be posted to the U-boot list.
>
>>     * New machine definition (i.e. imx6sauto, imx6dlauto)
>
> This should be posted to the U-boot list.
>
>>     * Update DDR script for imx6qsabre{auto,sd}
>
> This should be posted to the U-boot list.
>
>>     * Include machine variation (i.e. NOR, NAND, WEIM-NOR, SPI-NOR)
>
> This should be posted to the U-boot list.
>
>>
>>     and more, in a total of 35 commits.
>
> Too bad we are diverting so much from mainline.
>
>>
>>     This version been tested for i.MX6 only, so it is compatible with
>>     i.MX6 SoCs only.
>
> This does not make any sense. Why do we have a version that is 
> "compatible with i.MX6 SoCs only" ?

We have no SoC which uses the 2013.04 FSL fork, except those new machines. I think it will be a temporary recipe until we get those changes merged into mainline kernel.

> Otavio, what about reverting this patch and accepting each one of 
> these patches one by one as long as they are posted into the U-boot 
> list and accepted into u-boot-imx tree?

I don't think it is right to block board additions because those are not available in U-Boot mainline. We do support several boards which fit in this case and it would be bad for users to not be able to use these boards until this is done.

I fully agree Freescale should support those in U-Boot mainline and I hope they send those for inclusion but one should not block the another.

Regards,

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