[U-Boot] [PATCH v6 2/2] Marvell Sheevaplug Board support

[Stefan Roese]

On Monday 13 July 2009 08:06:00 Prafulla Wadaskar wrote:
> > On 17:54 Sun 12 Jul     , Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > > Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,
> > >
> > > In message <20090712151534.GF7218 at game.jcrosoft.org> you wrote:
> > > > > > > +#undef CONFIG_CMD_FLASH
>
> Dear Jean
> I can define this line below
>
> > > > > > > +#define CONFIG_SYS_NO_FLASH		/*
>
> But I can't define this line below since CONFIG_CMD_IMLS is defined in
> config_cmd_default.h under ifndef condition, then I will have to undef it
> again. Pls suggest??

Yes, it seems that config_cmd_default needs some cleanup here. It originates 
to a time where NOR-FLASH was present on all boards. This is not the case any 
more. Something like this would be a first step (yes I know, the list is now 
not alphabetically sorted any more):

diff --git a/include/config_cmd_default.h b/include/config_cmd_default.h
index 0376e44..4990839 100644
--- a/include/config_cmd_default.h
+++ b/include/config_cmd_default.h
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@
 #define CONFIG_CMD_CONSOLE     /* coninfo                      */
 #define CONFIG_CMD_ECHO                /* echo arguments               */
 #define CONFIG_CMD_SAVEENV     /* saveenv                      */
-#define CONFIG_CMD_FLASH       /* flinfo, erase, protect       */
 #define CONFIG_CMD_FPGA                /* FPGA configuration Support   */
 #define CONFIG_CMD_IMI         /* iminfo                       */
 #ifndef CONFIG_SYS_NO_FLASH
+#define CONFIG_CMD_FLASH       /* flinfo, erase, protect       */
 #define CONFIG_CMD_IMLS                /* List all found images        */
 #endif
 #define CONFIG_CMD_ITEST       /* Integer (and string) test    */

> Secondly,
> I think config_cmd_default.h need be tuned for its better usability.
> FLASH/FPGA/NET/SETGETDCR/IMLS are board specific, should be removed.
> I know the impact will be to update all other configs which are using it.

Full Ack.

> Thirdly,
> On some of Embedded systems, where memory footprint is a very critical
> issue, we need to bring down u-boot binary size as small as possible. With
> this reference using config_cmd_default.h will be problematic. For this I
> think-
>  we should add one more configuration like CONFIG_SMALL_IMAGE to generate
> smallest image u-boot binary. This is my requirement for some of board.
> What do you think to make it generic ?
>
> In brief,
> I am not enjoying using this file :-(
> I prefer it should be more generic.
> I wish NOT to use this file, shall I ?

Again, I don't think its mandatory to use this file. I know that Jean-
Christophe asked you to include it, but I personally don't think it has to be 
done.

Jean-Christophe is on vacation for 1 week. So unfortunately not much will 
happen in the ARM repository in the meantime.

Best regards,
Stefan

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