[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 3/4] Add new folder and build system for SPL

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Jul 8 15:41:38 CEST 2011


Dear Aneesh V,

In message <4E170601.1080000 at ti.com> you wrote:
>
> Symlinks, copies are not involved in either case. My question was this:
> Where should something like 'nand_spl/nand_boot.c' go in the new
> framework?
> 
> 1) spl/nand/nand_boot.c OR
> 2) drivers/nand/spl_nand_boot.c

I have no strong preferences here...

> (2) Helps in having:
> SPLOBJTREE := (OBJTREE)/spl
> 
> where as with (1) we have:
> SPLOBJTREE := (OBJTREE)/spl/obj
> and with this nand_boot.o will be in
> (OBJTREE)/spl/obj/spl/nand/nand_boot.o !
> 
> To me (2) looks cleaner, and goes well with the idea of having all
> source files in the original source tree.

Agreed.  But maybe we can remove a redundant "nand" from the file
name, like this:

	drivers/nand/spl_boot.c

?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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