[U-Boot] [PATCH] Handle most LDSCRIPT setting centrally

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Apr 7 09:11:03 CEST 2011


Dear Scott Wood,

In message <20110406233136.GA13709 at schlenkerla.am.freescale.net> you wrote:
> Currently, some linker scripts are found by common code in config.mk.
> Some are found using CONFIG_SYS_LDSCRIPT, but the code for that is
> sometimes in arch config.mk and sometimes in board config.mk.  Some
> are found using an arch-specific rule for looking in CPUDIR, etc.
> 
> Further, the powerpc config.mk rule relied on CONFIG_NAND_SPL
> when it really wanted CONFIG_NAND_U_BOOT -- which covered up the fact
> that not all NAND_U_BOOT builds actually wanted CPUDIR/u-boot-nand.lds.
> 
> Replace all of this -- except for a handful of boards that are actually
> selecting a linker script in a unique way -- with centralized ldscript
> finding.

Thanks for this nice cleanup.

Only one question: Which boards / architectures did you cover during
your tests?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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