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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Marko Milutinovic <markomilutin@gmail.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: New MACH Addition
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:33:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110418183313.GP14770@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=FxqCsR1vY_p_i-XVB8g-niciODA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Marko,

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:17:47PM -0600, Marko Milutinovic wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently ported barebox to a platform using an old AT91 chip (at91m55800a,
> ARM7TDMI core). There is already a MACH_AT91 folder but this chip is
> sufficiently different that I just made a new folder MACH_AT91_legacy. This
> was just a test project for me to get familiar with using barebox.
> 
> I'm just wondering if there is any value in me merging in the code for this?
> I realize it's a pretty old chipset, but I'm finding barebox very useful and
> would like to contribute to it.

I never even heard of this chip. I think adding support for it should be
ok, but we might remove it in the future should non trivial architecture
changes become necessary and nobody cares for updating this.

Sascha


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-18 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-18 18:17 Marko Milutinovic
2011-04-18 18:33 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2011-04-18 18:38   ` Robert Schwebel
2011-04-18 21:04     ` Marko Milutinovic
2011-04-19  6:51       ` Robert Schwebel
2011-04-19 15:06 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD

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