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

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Mar 18 22:11:21 CET 2009


Dear Scott Wood,

In message <49C15672.2000502 at freescale.com> you wrote:
>
> So the options are:
> 1. Make the user hand-edit the board config file,
> 2. Duplicate the board config file, or
> 3. Put up with a little clutter in the makefile until a better system is 
> put into place -- and hopefully the clutter will serve as encouragement 
> for this to actually happen. :-)
> 
> I'm not sure which of #1 or #2 you're advocating, but I much prefer #3.

I'm seeing a pretty strong and growing tendency for Freescale boards
to have 30+ lines entries in the Makefile. This is something that must
stop.

If you want to handle this typo through Makefile configuration, then at
least write much shorter code.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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