[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 7/7] am335x_evm: Add support to boot from NOR.

Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot at aribaud.net
Thu Jul 11 18:14:11 CEST 2013


On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:08:59 +0200, Albert ARIBAUD
<albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:

> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:54:09 -0400, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> 
> > The new in the patch
> > board/ti/am335x/u-boot.lds needed to be re-synced with
> > arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds again.
> 
> Actually, I wonder why so many ARM .lds files need to exist at all,
> when arch/arm/cpu/u-boot[-spl].lds could be used most of the time. I
> suspect that the main reason for custom .lds files is ad hoc MEMORY
> declarations, which could easily be commonalized through adequate
> preprocessing.

... well here the only difference with arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds is the
addition of board/ti/am335x/libam335x.o right after start.o but this
should probably also be manageable in arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.


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