[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] SPL: Add YMODEM over UART load support

[Scott Wood]

On 02/01/2012 04:24 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Tom Rini,
> 
> In message <1328047438-26294-1-git-send-email-trini at ti.com> you wrote:
>> From: Matt Porter <mporter at ti.com>
>>
>> Adds support for loading U-Boot from UART using YMODEM protocol.
>> If YMODEM support is enabled in SPL and the romcode indicates
>> that SPL loaded via UART then SPL will wait for start of a
>> YMODEM transfer via the console port.
> 
> Does it really make sense to add all kind of bloat to the SPL?
> 
> What originally has been designed to be minimal code now start to pull
> in all kinds of other crap,

What's the alternative -- another name and separate makefile
infrastructure for non-minimal initial loaders?

It's important that SPL be *able* to produce very small images when
needed, but its purpose has grown beyond that.

> that has never been designed to run before relocation.

At least some SPLs do relocation.

-Scott