[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/19] ARM: SPL: Make more generic, merge DaVinci and OMAP

Stefan Roese stefan.roese at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 13:22:57 CEST 2012


Hi Tom,

On 08/23/2012 01:19 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> The following patch series merges the davinci and omap-common SPL
> frameworks into a single framework, CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK along with a
> few small cleanups to the code to make it a little smaller and more
> flexible.  The end result is that davinci can now opt in on
> SPL-boots-Linux by just setting the right defines and other platforms
> would just need to adapt to this framework.  In my testing, davinci
> gains between 300 and 700 bytes for this (not enabling the SPL OS
> feature) and omap4/5/etc lose just a little bit (from the printf->puts
> changes).  I've tested this on omap3_beagle (xM and classic) and
> omap4_panda.  I don't have any davinci platforms that were previously
> using SPL so I can't boot-test those changes but since everyone sets
> CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, we're OK in that department.
> 
> To make this series easier to test I've placed it on
> http://github.com/trini/u-boot WIP/spl-improvements

As you might have seen, I based my powerpc SPL NOR flash booting series
on this series (git repository):

http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg91443.html

Nice work, thanks.

So, for the generic SPL patches of your series:

Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>

Thanks,
Stefan



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