[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] add 'license' command to u-boot?commandline

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Jul 10 13:26:38 CEST 2008


In message <20080710111334.GA8546 at prithivi.gnumonks.org> you wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:51:03PM +0200, Detlev Zundel wrote:
> 
> > Even though I'm an enthusiastic Emacs user, I have different reasons for
> > my vote.  As far as build dependencies go, I'd like to restrict this to
> > the LSB standard[1].  Xdd is not in there, so thats why I vote for the
> > small C program (unless we can adapt the script and use 'od').
> 
> I think sticking to LSB for build dependencies is a very reasonable choice.
> 
> I still don't think the small C program is that much of a problem:
> 
> 1) dependency tracking should ensure it is only built when the license
>    feature is enabled by the board-level config.  I think this will be
>    a minority case.
> 
> 2) compilation of native programs has already to be possible since there
>    are other native tools such as mkimage built during the compilation

I think we have an agreement. We will use the C program.

Now let's go on and do some real work.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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