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

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Wed Jul 11 14:15:49 CEST 2012


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On 07/11/2012 05:08 AM, Sughosh Ganu wrote:
> On Wed Jul 11, 2012 at 04:43:19AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On 07/11/2012 04:05 AM, Sughosh Ganu wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>>> 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.

To be clear, absolutely agreed.

- -- 
Tom
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