[U-Boot] [PATCH 6/7] arm: ls102xa: Add SD boot support for LS1021AQDS board

[Huan Wang]

Hi, Albert,

> > On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:47:18 +0800, Alison Wang <b18965 at freescale.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > +
> > > +     . = ALIGN(4);
> > > +     .u_boot_list : {
> > > +             KEEP(*(SORT(.u_boot_list*_i2c_*)));
> > > +     }
> >
> > IS this required? And if it is, could it not be added to the
> > arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds file? This way you would not need an .lds
> > file at all.
> >
> > [Alison Wang] Yes, it is required.
> 
> Ok -- what for? :)
[Alison Wang] In SPL part, DDR is initialized by reading SPD through I2C interface.
For I2C, ll_entry_count() is called, and it returns the number of elements of a
linker-generated array placed into subsection of .u_boot_list section specified
by _list argument. So I need to add this to make I2C work in SPL.

> 
> > I would like to add it in arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds. I was not sure
> > adding it in arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds is acceptable or not.
> 
> (assuming the reason why it is needed is valid) If it causes no change
> to boards which do not use it right now (and I mean 'no change' ad
> 'binary identical') then this is acceptable. Make sure you check the
> binary invariance and that you mention it in the commit.
> 
[Alison Wang] It will cause the binary is not identical for other board. I think
it may be not good to add in arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds. What's your opinion about it?

Best Regards,
Alison Wang