[U-Boot] examples: add again x86 standalone example

[Graeme Russ]

Hi Guys,


On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com>wrote:

> Hello Tom, Simon.
>
>
>
> > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:47:53PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >
> > > Commit fea25720 renamed arch/i386 to arch/x86.
> > > But it missed to modify examples/standalone/Makefile.
>

Oops - my bad :)


> > >
> > > This commit revives examples/standalone/82559_eeprom.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com>
> > > Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Hello, Simon.
> > >
> > > I think examples/standalone/82559_eeprom should have been
> > > originally implemented for i386(x86) architecture
> > > but it has never compiled more than two years.
> > > (And I am probably the first one to notice this.)
> > >
> > > I chosed to add it again rather than delete it in this patch.
> > > If you do not need it any more, I am glad to re-post v2
> > > to delete it.
> >
> > Note that now that we build this I see:
> > i586-angstrom-linux-ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol 82559_eeprom;
> > defaulting to 0000000000040000
> >
> > So a new warning on coreboot-x86.  I'm giving this patch to Simon in
> > patchwork and he can either follow-up with a patch fixing the warning or
> > nak and delete the example.
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>

To be honest, I don't think this will ever be used. 'Hello World' provides
a perfect example of a standalone application on the x86 as it stands
already.

The 82559 is the EEPROM for the Intel Fast Ethernet controller, and as
such, I think any interface to it should be done via a proper driver and
not by a standalone application. Besides, I really doubt that there are any
systems using an 82559 and U-Boot in the wild, and probably never will be.

I vote for deletion

Regards,

Graeme