[U-Boot] denx/master is not building for OMAP3 platforms except Beagle

[Hiremath, Vaibhav]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:wd at denx.de]
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 12:08 AM
> To: Hiremath, Vaibhav
> Cc: Albert ARIBAUD; u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] denx/master is not building for OMAP3 platforms
> except Beagle
> 
> Dear "Hiremath, Vaibhav",
> 
> In message <19F8576C6E063C45BE387C64729E739404AA21C4AC at dbde02.ent.ti.com>
> you wrote:
> >
> > > Note that adding the definition may not be sufficient to get
> relocation
> > > working.
> > >
> > [Hiremath, Vaibhav] But atleast it will make code to compile cleanly. I
> feel,
> > at any cost we should not add such patches which will break compilation,
> >  the code should build always.
> 
> If the code compiles without problems, but then fails to run, the
> situation would be only worse.
> 
[Hiremath, Vaibhav] I agree that the situation in both the case is going to be only worst, but I feel we should not merge the patches which breaks other platforms.

Anyway I will test this for AM3517, OMAP3EVM and submit the patch shortly.

Thanks,
Vaibhav

> It is MUCH BETTER to roar a clear and unmistakable error message into
> the face of the user so everybody gets aware that some work needs to
> be done to fix these boards rather than to hush up the problems, in
> which case nobody would do anything, and a much bigger turmoil would
> start when the feature removel time comes and all these broken boards
> get removed from the tree,
> 
[Hiremath, Vaibhav] I 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 
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