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

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Fri Oct 19 01:51:28 CEST 2007


Hi,

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.

This is build-tested, and runtime-tested on hardware on two boards.
Erwan Velu <erwan at seanodes.com> will likely be able to test on the
Advantech PCM-5820 soon.


I'm planning similar patches for unifying the code for CK804 based
boards, and others. E.g. we can easily support the 

 - ASUS A8NE-FM/S
 - ASUS A8N-E
 - ASUS A85NX
 - and probably lots more very similar boards

from one common code base (and we should!).

Note: I'm not saying that we _must_ do this with _all_ boards in the
repository. If the differences are too big, this doesn't make too much
sense. But I have a very strong opinion that we should indeed do it
for all boards which are reasonably similar.

The savings even in this (GX1) case are pretty large, but if you look at
some CK804/MCP55 boards, you'll see that it makes a _dramatic_
difference in the amount of code whether you copy-paste or use a generic
common code base.


Comments welcome, Uwe.
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