[U-Boot] [PATCH] Blackfin: bf525-ucr2: new board port

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sun Dec 19 21:09:44 CET 2010


Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <201012191133.30875.vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> > I want to get rid of all these board specific config.mk files.
> > And I don't see a good reason why it would be needed here.  Other
> > boards don;t need any of this either.
> 
> then where exactly are boards supposed to specify their own custom build 
> settings ?  like optimizations that they want to enable on specific 

Boards should not need custom build rules in the first place.

> files/subdirs ?  many Blackfin boards prefer speed over size in the 
> compression code because we arent hurting for space, and most people prefer
> the faster decompression at runtime.  without a board config.mk, that isnt  
> possible.

Can these be gobal settings for all BF boards then?

"not possible" is a strong statement.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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