[U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: transform init_sequence into a function.

[Joakim Tjernlund]

Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote on 2010/12/06 23:49:04:
>
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 09:36:40 +1100
> Graeme Russ <graeme.russ at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> > > I think it's easier with the function pointers -- if you want to debug
> > > a hang in that phase of the boot, just have the loop print the address
> > > of each function before it calls it.
> >
> > I agree, but you can't print the address before you have console output.
>
> It's usually not too hard to hack something together, even if it's too
> early for normal console output -- but I'd expect most problems to be
> either before the initialization list, or after the console is working.
>
> > I notice that console_init_f() can be up to 13th in the list of initialisation
> > functions - How often is that the case? There seems to be a lot of SDRAM
> > initialisation prior to getting console output which, to me, seems a little
> > strange - surely console output can be achieved earlier (even if it is using
> > a hard-coded baud rate)
>
> I don't see "a lot of SDRAM initialization" -- there's
> adjust_sdram_tbs_8xx, but that's really just setting up a couple clock
> registers (and it's only for 8xx).  It's not the real SDRAM init.

Scott, listen to yourself. You are proposing that one should turn the
code inside out and scan the map files just do this simple thing.

What is so valuable with func ptrs that you think it is worth it?

 Jocke