[U-Boot] [STATUS] v2010.12-rc2 released

[Kumar Gala]

On Nov 30, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:

>> 
>> On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 08:00 -0700, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>>> Hello everybody.
>>> 
>>> I apologise for being a bit late with this announcement:
>>> 
>>> * U-Boot v2010.12-rc2 was released on Sunday, November 28.
>>> 
>>> * Release "v2010.12" is (still) scheduled in 13 days:
>>>  on December 13, 2010.
>>> 
>>> Please help testing, and check if all your relevant patches have been
>>> included.
>> 
>> Is it possible to pull Kumar's patch:
>> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2010-November/082099.html
>> 
>> Since 8xxx ddr spd code calls hwconfig before relocating code, the most
>> 85xx/86xx boards which use 8xxx ddr spd can not bring up without this
>> patch.
> 
> Does
> const char *cpu_hwconfig __attribute__((weak)) = "";
> const char *board_hwconfig __attribute__((weak)) = "";
> need to ptrs instead of an array?
> const char cpu_hwconfig[] __attribute__((weak)) = "";
> const char board_hwconfig[] __attribute__((weak)) = "";
> 
> All these static string pointers costs extra space, in this case
> 2x4 bytes for the ptr and 2 fixup entries = 16 bytes
> 
>  Jocke

We can make them arrays instead.  I don't see any reason they need to be pointers.

- k