[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Move init_sequence table into code.

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Apr 18 06:14:13 CEST 2008


In message <1208241621.5911.32.camel at gentoo-jocke.transmode.se> you wrote:
> 
> It is not going to be a walk in the park :) The big remaining part
> is string literals while still in flash, not sure how to solve these
> yet.
> 
> > 
> > > > The original idea of having such a list  of  funtion  pointers  which
> > > > just  get executed one after another was to be able to wrap this into
> > > > some "#ifndef CONFIG_INIT_SEQUENCE" and use this to allow for  board-
> > > > specific init sequences by just adding a #define with the needed list
> > > > of functions to the board config files.
> > > 
> > > You can do that with weak functions too. Just make all the functions
> > > weak, then a board can overide with its own function.
> > 
> > That would not, for example, to allow to change the sequence - say
> > one board needs to initialize PCI very early, but another one very
> > late.
> 
> True, but as no one even uses this code ATM, it can't be a big deal.

OK. Well, this is not a bug fix, but a (more or less invasive) change
to basic infrastructure. I will not add this so shortly before a
release. Please rebase and resubmit when the next merge window is
open.

Thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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