[U-Boot] [PATCH] Blackfin: bf525-ucr2: new board port
Mike Frysinger
vapier at gentoo.org
Sun Dec 19 23:05:45 CET 2010
On Sunday, December 19, 2010 15:09:44 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Mike Frysinger 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.
i didnt say build rules, i said settings. that means tweaking things like
CFLAGS. none of the Blackfin board config.mk's have custom build rules.
> > 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?
no, that doesnt make any sense. just because i want some of the boards i
maintain to favor speed over size doesnt mean every board maintainer should.
thus the settings are in the board-specific config.mk where they should be.
-mike
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