[U-Boot] [RFC] initcall mechanism introduction

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On 20:19 Sat 23 May     , Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,
> 
> In message <20090523150558.GB26561 at game.jcrosoft.org> you wrote:
> > 
> > 	Linux Kernel has for a long time a well-optimized mechanism for for
> > 	calling initiallisation code. Import the the same functionnality to
> > 	U-Boot.
> > 
> > 	Evenif it will increase a few U-Boot (999 bytes) as show in PATCH 3/3
> > 	if we convert the NET_MULTI it will decrease of 2212 bytes at the end
> 
> What would be the purpose of this in a boot loader?
> 
> For Linux iot makes sense to free each and every  byte  which  is  no
> longer  needed  because  applications running can really benefir from
> it. But in U-Boot? Please check the memory map of the running system.
> The memory regained will not even be usable by anybody...
it you read the patch 1 you will see that I've no which to free it
> 
> What sort of benefit do you expect?
simplify the code, reduce the number of ifdef
reduce the size of U-Boot etc...

I do have some test and I've gain between 2KiB and more than 10KiB
by using this

so yes I think it's great winn

Best Regards,
J.