[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 0/17] Version 0 of Kconfig for U-Boot

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Masahiro,

In message <20140324145814.B35F.AA925319 at jp.panasonic.com> you wrote:
> 
> You are suggesting a better idea below.
> We should not treat SPL as a special case.
> 
> In my opinion, CONFIG_SPL_*  should be discontinued.
> 
> For example, we can merge CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
> to CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE.

Are you sure this is always possible?

> #ifdef CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
> #  define CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE    0x00000000
> #else
> #  define CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE    0x10000000
> #endif
> 
> rather than
> #define CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE    0x00000000
> #define CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE    0x10000000

Are there really no cases where for example the SPL needs to know
CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE, for example when loading U-Boot to RAM?
I think that the "normal" U-Boot does not need to know about the SPL,
but is this also always true the other way round?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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