[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] APM82xxx: Add CPU and other peripheral support

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Sep 3 10:32:53 CEST 2010


Dear Stefan Roese,

In message <201009030946.22440.sr at denx.de> you wrote:
>
> IIRC, then the main reason for this is the code size reduction. Using your 
> version would increase the code size quite a bit. But I concur, it would be 
> much better readable. So just let me know, and I'll try to come up with a 
> patch cleaning this up a bit.

Maybe some common parts (like "AMCC PowerPC ") could be split off.

For the rest, the compelex code needs also space, so I'm not sure
about the end result.

> As described in some comments, the problem is that some SoC's have the same 
> PVR (for example 440EP rev C and 440GR rev B have same PVR). I have no idea 
> how this identification could be solved without such ifdef's.

I see.

> But you are right. Some of the ifdef's can be removed. Again, this would also 
> result in a bigger image size though.

Really? We should measure the effect.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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