[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] SECURE BOOT: add version info for ISBC

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Jan 27 15:11:50 CET 2014


Dear Aneesh,

In message <caf0224e47434bdba2623faeea12bd9a at DM2PR03MB415.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> you wrote:
>
> > But this is what I had in mind.  It appears to be a simple 1:1 mapping
> > from SoC to ISBC version to me, or am I wrong here?
...
> Yes, it is a 1:1 mapping from SoC to ISBC version but we have multiple SoC's
> having the same ISBC version. So using the SoC names would result in having 
> a long list of SoC's wherever we are doing some stuff specific to the ISBC 
> version.
> Also in future, we might have new versions of ISBC with more features.
> SO having multiple SoC specific checks inside the code would lead to confusion.

So don't use code, and instead make this data-driven.  Use a
lookup-table.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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