[U-Boot] [PATCH V2] example/standalone: introduce STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 15 March 2009 14:29:59 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD you wrote:
> > > > as example generate via the config.h a env var name
> > > > standalone_load_addr automaticly so the end user will just have to
> > > > built it, load it and run it
> > >
> > > This is error prone.  NAK.
> >
> > which error?
>
> The load address of a standalone application cannot be known at
> compile time of the U-Boot image.
>
> Please don't assume that the code / Makefiles etc. of that application
> is even part of the U-Boot source tree or build system.
>
> Please don't assume that everybody uses the same load addresses.
>
> Please don't asume that all standalone applications running on a
> system use the same load addresses - there are cases, where several SA
> apps are simultaneously loaded, etc.
>
>
> Don't try to be clever when this cannot work.

i dont really see the value in moving the load addr from the u-boot build env 
to the board env automatically, but moving the definitions from 
examples/Makefile to the top level $arch_config.mk sounds sane to me.
-mike
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