[U-Boot] [PATCH V3 2/3] arm/davinci: spl - boot device selection

[Sughosh Ganu]

On Wed Jul 11, 2012 at 04:43:19AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On 07/11/2012 04:05 AM, Sughosh Ganu wrote:

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> >> I'm fine saying that we should wrap the call around an #if, but I
> >> would expect it to be set in the common case and only not set in
> >> custom production boards.
> > 
> > Correct, so all that is needed for SD/MMC loading can still be kept
> > separate from, say nand load in the spl.c file, isn't it. So if sd/mmc
> > spl load needs heap to be set up, can't it be done only for that
> > case.
> 
> Yes, but we don't want to have N locations that set up the heap.  We
> want one location that will, if the board has defined a heap area, we
> set it up.  Or to put it another way, calling mem_malloc_init isn't part
> of the mmc boot-flow, it's part of the general boot flow.

Fair enough. My only concern was just that if some feature is not
needed for a board, it should be possible to exclude it out.

-sughosh