[U-Boot] [PATCH/RFC] unify version_string

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Jun 24 22:10:22 CEST 2011


Dear =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andreas_Bie=DFmann?=,

In message <7A8565DE-76B0-43A8-9BCD-167B2D117650 at googlemail.com> you wrote:
> 
> We need a blob containing just the version_string, another blob
> containing the ppc magic number and some linker tweaks to get them both
> placed before the start.S stuff.
> Then we need also some make-level distinction to have the version_string
> blob in some common library
> for all other architectures.

A lot of effort just to insert a simple string. This doesn't make
sense to me.  Leave the code as is, and just move the definition of
the string to a common place.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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