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

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Tom,

On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:24:58 -0700, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks. I'm adding this to my todo list, although not as an immediate
priority.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.