[U-Boot] [PATCH 5/7] Make a special uboot used for booting from SDcard or SPI flash

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Mar 18 20:57:33 CET 2009


Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Scott Wood,
> 
> In message <20090318171535.GB3314 at loki.buserror.net> you wrote:
>> Unless I'm mistaken, those targets aren't for boards that merely *have* such
>> things, but are trying to boot from the device in question, similar to the
>> alternate configs for booting from NAND.
>>
>>> Assume each of the hundrets of boards would add code like this.
>> That's why we need kconfig. :-)
>>
>> But until then...
> 
> ...we should limit the number of make targets per board and not let
> grow it out of bound in an unreasonable way.

You'd rather tell the user they can't boot from a given device because 
it would clutter the makefile?

-Scott


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