Current state of AM33xx patches

Mark Jackson mpfj-list at mimc.co.uk
Mon Jul 2 04:04:26 EDT 2012


On 29/06/12 18:56, Hiremath, Vaibhav wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 19:50:45, Mark Jackson wrote:
>>
>> This does appear to work using the ramdisk, but there seems to be no support for booting off MMC.
>>
> 
> This is known thing and clearly mentioned/highlighted above.
> 
> "Use the ramdisk image to boot kernel, since we do not have support for any 
> storage devices in the mainline."

Oops ... missed that, sorry !!

<snip>

>> All in all, the AM335x code does seem to be very fragmented.  Is that just because these are
>> non-trivial changes going in ?
>>
> 
> Not really true.
> 
> The answer is simple, if you are looking for production quality code then 
> certainly you should use something based on PSP release (SDK) and if you 
> want to stay close to Mainline and would like to contribute towards it, you 
> have to understand the process, dependencies, development and discussions 
> happening on the list.

Okay.  Thanks for explaining.

Mark



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