[PATCH 1/1] ARM: OMAP4: Add OMAP4 Blaze Tablet support

Ruslan Bilovol ruslan.bilovol at ti.com
Sun Feb 10 16:42:35 EST 2013


Hi,

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Ruslan Bilovol <ruslan.bilovol at ti.com> [130208 11:41]:
>> The OMAP4 Blaze Tablet is TI OMAP4 processor-based
>> development platform in a tablet formfactor.
>> The platform contains many of the features found in
>> present-day handsets (such as audio, video, wireless
>> functions and user interfaces) and in addition
>> contains features for software development and test.
>>
>> This patch adds initial support for the OMAP4 Blaze
>> Tablet development platform. Additional functionality
>> depends on different drivers and code modifications that
>> are not upstreamed yet so will be added later.
>
> Nice that you have it working, however, we're not adding
> any more board-*.c files as we're moving things to device
> tree based booting.

Hmm.. I though at this time we require boardfile + DT support..
Probably lot of boardfiles confused me - any plan to delete them?
Anyway, the whole era of boardfiles has gone.. (Where to place board-specific
hacks now? :) )

>
> Care to try to get the basic .dts file done for this?
> You will probably need to add CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB=y
> and CONFIG_ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT=y to omap2plus_defconfig
> and append the .dtb file to zImage and run mkimage then
> manually to boot it. But you should get serial and MMC
> at least working to start with :)

Yes, this is a second part of this board' upstreaming.
Thanks for advice and please expect DT-part only of board soon..

>
> Regards,
>
> Tony



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