[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/6] nand_spl: update udelay for Freescale boards

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Aug 14 01:22:11 CEST 2012


On 08/13/2012 06:14 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
>> On 08/13/2012 01:10 PM, Matthew McClintock wrote:
>>> Let's use the more appropriate udelay for the nand_spl. While we
>>> can't make use of u-boot's full udelay we can atl east use a for
>>> loop that won't get optimized away .Since we have the bus clock
>>> we can use the timebase to calculate wall time.
>>>
>>> Looked at reusing the u-boot udelay functions but it pulls in a lot
>>> of code as well as depends on the gd struct and would require a lot
>>> of rework
>>
>> What's wrong with depending on the gd struct?
> 
> Perhaps the wording is wrong a bit off. It's just pulling in other
> stuff and as you know we are very space constrained.

A struct definition doesn't take up space.  Maybe you meant a dependency
on certain specific code that puts things in the gd struct?

>>> @@ -123,6 +124,9 @@ ifneq ($(OBJTREE), $(SRCTREE))
>>>  $(obj)nand_boot.c:
>>>       @rm -f $(obj)nand_boot.c
>>>       ln -s $(SRCTREE)/nand_spl/board/$(BOARDDIR)/nand_boot.c $(obj)nand_boot.c
>>> +$(obj)../common.c:
>>> +     @rm -f $(obj)../common.c
>>> +     ln -s $(SRCTREE)/nand_spl/board/freescale/common.c $(obj)../common.c
>>>  endif
>>
>> Why are you creating a link in the parent directory?
> 
> The typical build process picks out files needed for the build and
> symlinks them to nand_spl folder - or if building out of tree then it
> symlinks to the out of tree folder. This is true for all files in
> nand_spl as it currently exists not just this new file.

This is the first time I've seen a link go in $(obj)../ rather than $(obj)

-Scott




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