[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Common code base for Advantech PCM-5820, ASI MB_5BLMP, BCOM WinNET100

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Fri Oct 19 02:31:32 CEST 2007


On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 06:19:58PM -0600, Marc Jones wrote:
>> here's a first patch (in a row of a bunch of other, similar planned
>> patches) which reduces the amount of crappy, duplicated mainboard code
>> in the repository.
>> (it also adds support for a new target, the Advantech PCM-5820, btw.)
>> This common code supports three different GX1-boards, more will follow.
>> We have at least 7 of them in the repo right now (and I'll add more),
>> duplicating the same crap in each mainboard/* directory again and again
>> is definately not what we want to do.
>
> Uwe,
> Good stuff! If you are interested, it would be good to do this for the 
> LX/5536 platforms too. What do you think?

Yes, definately. IMO we can do this for pretty much all chipsets, e.g.

src/common/gx1-base
src/common/lx-base
src/common/i440bx-base
src/common/ck804-base
src/common/mcp55-base
etc. etc.

My next patch will be for the Intel 440BX though, as I can personally
test those boards.


Uwe.
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