[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] spl: MMC U-Boot image load from raw partition

Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot at aribaud.net
Thu Nov 13 12:16:01 CET 2014


Hello Tom,

On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:46:09 -0500, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 11:19:23PM +0100, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> > Hello Paul,
> > 
> > On Sat,  8 Nov 2014 23:14:54 +0100, Paul Kocialkowski
> > <contact at paulk.fr> wrote:
> > > This is a first attempt at adding support for U-Boot image load from raw
> > > partitions. It does not support OS boot as I cannot test it on my current
> > > setup.
> > > 
> > > This is going to be useful for the Optimus Black port (please do not consider
> > > this as dead code because no board is using it right now, there will be one
> > > soon)!
> > 
> > Well... Why don't you just post these two patches a little later, as
> > part of the upcoming series which will add support for the Optimus
> > Black?
> 
> So to me the "dead code" thing is starting to get a lot more ambiguous
> since with Kconfig we'll need need every single possible choice enabled
> in some defconfig, just some way to turn it on, on a possibly relevant
> board.  In this case, any OMAP3+ board would be a fine place to try this
> out, IFF it's done as a Kconfig choice.

Not sure I'm understanding you right, but it seems to me we're in sync:
as long as the code is enabled somewhere on some target, it is not dead
code. I'm precisely asking that the code here be submitted along with
the target that uses it. Or did I miss something?

> Tom

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.


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