[U-Boot] [PATCH] powerpc: Cleanup BOOTFLAG_* usage

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Sep 13 07:34:40 CEST 2010


Dear Peter Tyser,

In message <1284355310-25449-1-git-send-email-ptyser at xes-inc.com> you wrote:
> BOOTFLAG_COLD and BOOTFLAG_WARM have identical definitions for every
> PowerPC board, so share a common definition.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser at xes-inc.com>
> ---
> It looks like there are only a few boards (5) that use the warm/cold
> boot concept, maybe we should remove this largely unused feature?
> Or at least remove it for most CPU types?  Is anyone out there
> using it?

I added this with the very first versions of PPCBoot, more than a
decade ago. I've never seen it really used in the code.

I vote for removing it.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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