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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: vj <vicencb@gmail.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] [RFC][PATCH] archosg9: add support for tablet
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:16:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120926081641.GL1322@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348613994-1793-1-git-send-email-vicencb@gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:59:47AM +0200, vj wrote:
> Hello,
> A this is my first contribution, so I'm basically requesting for comments.
> 
> The attached patch adds support for Archos G9 tablet wich uses an OMAP4460 cpu.
> The tablet by default only boots from internal flash, so to test
> barebox on it a hardware tweak is required: change the sys_boot
> configuration.  Once done the tablet can be booted with the following
> command:
> A sudo scripts/usbboot <first_stage> <rootfs>
> 
> The patch contains
> A 1.- specific changes for OMAP4460
> A 2.- support for usb-booting
> A 3.- support for console on usb
> A 4.- support for file transfer through usb
> A 5.- some minor bug fixes
> A 6.- adds support for archosg9 board
> 
> A question I have is what does omap_vector_init do?
> It breaks usb-booting.
> An improvement to be done would be to split the file
> "scripts/usbboot.c" into a header and two c files, but the Makefile
> framework seemed to me to do not allow that.
> 
> In any case the patch should be tested with other boards to check it
> does not breaks something.


This is very interesting stuff indeed.

Now that I read through the series I can say that the biggest single
problem with it is the missing context of filenames and function names.
All OMAP specific stuff should have a omap_ or omap4_ prefix.

Sascha

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-26  8:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <[RFC][PATCH] archosg9: add support for tablet>
2012-09-25 22:59 ` vj
2012-09-25 22:59   ` [PATCH 1/7] Improved an error message and solved a minor bug vj
2012-09-26  7:11     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-25 22:59   ` [PATCH 2/7] added debug info for twl6030 vj
2012-09-25 22:59   ` [PATCH 3/7] OMAP specific changes vj
2012-09-26  7:18     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-25 22:59   ` [PATCH 4/7] Add USB booting capabilities to OMAP vj
2012-09-26  7:45     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-28  0:27       ` vj
2012-09-28  7:32         ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-25 22:59   ` [PATCH 5/7] add console support over the same USB used for booting vj
2012-09-25 22:59   ` [PATCH 6/7] add filesystem " vj
2012-09-25 22:59   ` [PATCH 7/7] Add support for Archos G9 tablet vj
2012-09-26  3:57   ` [PATCH 0/7] [RFC][PATCH] archosg9: add support for tablet Antony Pavlov
2012-09-26  7:06   ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-26 22:38     ` vj
2012-09-26  8:16   ` Sascha Hauer [this message]

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