[U-Boot] [PATCH] mtd: Update MTD infrastructure to support 64bit device size

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Mon Jun 22 20:50:30 CEST 2009


Dirk Behme wrote:
> Because every non-U-Boot expert who just downloads recent git and 
> compiles it will get the warning and will wonder if something is wrong 
> or not. So yes, the check doesn't hurt, but the warning might confuse 
> the users, which are non-experts.

And the answer to that user is that something *is* wrong, and should be 
reported to the board maintainer so they can enable 64-bit printf.

>> We could get rid of it of course if we would enable this 64bit printf format 
>> on all platforms and removed this option completely. This would cost a bit of 
>> image size but would make things easier/simpler. Just my 0.02$...

Agreed.  Or once we get kconfig we can have it be selected by any code 
that requires it.

-Scott


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