[PATCH 0/9] i.MX7 SabreSD support

Andrey Smirnov andrew.smirnov at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 12:29:00 PDT 2017


On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org> wrote:
> Hi Andrey.
>
>> Also, note, that for a reason I haven't been able to track down yet,
>> compiling Barebox + this patchset without support for FEC will cause
>> upstream kernel (at least 4.12-rc1) to hang during boot while trying
>> to access FEC's register file. I suspect clock initialization issue,
>> but, as I said, I did not find that out conclusively.
> Maybe you should include this explanation in the patch that
> enables this option?
>

I seemed like a kernel problem, so there's no code in the patchset
that reflects this "limitation", meaning FEC driver is not
automatically enabled if i.MX7 SabreSD is selected, so I don't know if
there's a better place to put this note.

>>
>> Anyway, as usual, any feedback is wellcome.
>
> I have browsed the patches, and provided a little feedback.
> Apart form this the series looks good to me.
>
> But then for most parts I am not intiminate with the
> code so do not assume too much based on this.
>

Regardless, it was still useful feedback.

Thanks!
Andrey Smirnov



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