[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 2/9] spl: add initial support for a generic SPL framework

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Jul 18 18:06:33 CEST 2011


Dear Daniel Schwierzeck,

In message <1310746944-32711-1-git-send-email-daniel.schwierzeck at googlemail.com> you wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh V <aneesh at ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck at googlemail.com>

Thanks.

> +Overview
> +--------
> +
> +To unify all existing implementations for a secondary program loader (SPL)
> +and to allow simply adding of new implementations this generic SPL framework
> +have been created. With this framework almost all source files for a board

s/have/has/

> +How it works
> +------------
> +
> +There is a new directory TOPDIR/spl which contains only a Makefile.
> +All source files needed by SPL are recompiled inside this directory
> +and linked to the final binaries named u-boot-spl[.bin|.map].

The "recompiled inside this directory" might be misinterpreted.  How
about: "are compiled such that the resulting object files are placed
into this directory" or similar?

> +Thus makefiles and source files are able to build things differently for SPL.

Strictly speaking, the source files don't build anything themself.How
about: "This way we can compile the source files with different
settings for SPL." ?

> +Because SPL images normally have a different test base, one have to be

s/test/text/


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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