[U-Boot] File placement in Soc / board dirs and make issues (was: [PATCH V3 17/32] imximage.cfg: run files through C preprocessor)

[Tom Rini]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Albert ARIBAUD
<albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:15:02 -0700, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:27:09AM +0200, stefano babic wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>> > One reason to move into the board directory is that there was a decision
>> > to move rules related to only one arch or SOC where they belong to, that
>> > is in the corresponding arch/ or board/ directory.
>>
>> I'll admit that maybe my make-fu is off, but that idea doesn't work, at
>> least for SPL.  So I'd really like someone to make that work first.
>
> Tom, can you be more specific than 'it doesn't work'? :)
>
> Seriously, though, I'm interested in understand what the make issue is
> there, because I am indeed a proponent of putting files where they
> belong to, so if help is needed there, I would try to.

I have had no luck moving things like the 'MLO' rule from spl/Makefile
to anywhere else.  Same with the 'checkthumb' rule in the top-level
Makefile.

-- 
Tom