[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/32] Initial sparse fix series

[Kim Phillips]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:46:54 -0700
Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 07:28:16PM -0500, Kim Phillips wrote:
> 
> > This 32-patch series only begins to address making u-boot source more
> > 'sparseable,' or sparse-clean, ultimately to catch type, address space,
> > and endianness mismatches and generally improve code quality. E.g., in this
> > initial dose whose main purpose is to reduce the output volume to workable
> > levels, a couple of endianness bugs are found and fixed in
> > of_bus_default_translate() and fdt_get_base_address().  See [PATCH 14/32]
> > common/fdt_support.c: sparse fixes.
> 
> I want to repeat myself that I want to see sparse fixes come in.  That
> said, I expect that for v2 you will have done MAKEALL -a $arch for every
> arch there's an ELDK 5.2.x toolchain for, at least, and there's no new

so power, arm, and mips.

> problems popping up.  If you like I can pastebin my MAKEALL wrapper that
> lets you tell it things like --arch arm --eldk-521 and it sets up the
> environment for the toolchain.

please do.

> I also needed to not apply patch 01/32 and so I can really only take 27
> and 32 right now (I'll reply separately once I really do).

that's fine, thanks.

Kim