[U-Boot] [PATCH] v2 Linuxstamp II 9260 support

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Nov 5 21:16:39 CET 2009


Dear Paul Thomas,

In message <c785bba30911042010w6ed4756ep3ee349dd79f0c441 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > I have looked at about half of them.
> > It looks like partition tables are identical.

Right, and such duplication should be avoided.

> > I am interested in a way to generalize this file
> > and move it to the cpu layer so all the common
> > or nearly common files can be reduced to 1 file

Me too.

> This structure in partition.c is board specific not cpu specific. Even
> if all the current boards are exactly the same there would need to be
> a way someone could change this in the future without breaking other
> boards. In could be in the .c or .h file if that would make is

Agreed. But as it is, most boards do use the same default settings. So
please let us provide a common default, which can be used where it
fits (which seems to be the majority of systems) and overwritten where
it doesn't fit.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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