[U-Boot] File placement in Soc / board dirs and make issues

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Albert ARIBAUD
<albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> (seems like gmail does not honor the rule that replies should drop the
> "(was: xxxxx)" part in an e-mail subject; but hey, neither does Claws
> apparently. Sigh.)
>
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:17:41 -0700, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Ok, now it is more precise :) but still not enough for me to
> efficiently try and analyze the issue.
>
> Let's take the checkthumb rule. Where did you try to move it?

I tried both arch/arm/config.mk arch/arm/Makefile and couldn't make either work.

-- 
Tom