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

Tom Rini tom.rini at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 20:39:13 CET 2012


On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Tom Rini,
>
> In message <CA+M6bXmKum1B39RVcJ+jgDRmFCFr5sToZYDUVXnM4NfUZ-XQaQ at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>
>> > What originally has been designed to be minimal code now start to pull
>> > in all kinds of other crap, that has never been designed to run before
>> > relocation.
>>
>> Boards that don't need it can opt out.  We use this internally for
>> automated testing of U-Boot on hardware (and I'm setting up the same
>> thing locally).
>
> I don't deny that it's useful.  And it may even ork fine in your
> specific case.
>
> But the approach is wrong. This code has never been meant to run
> before relocation.
>
> I object against opening this pandora box.
>
> If you have so ample resources to run such code, then load a minimal
> configuration of U-Boot.

Is this a change of heart then?
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/109170

-- 
Tom


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