[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 6/7] kconfig: remove unneeded dependency on !SPL_BUILD

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On 20 February 2015 at 10:54, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 02/20/2015 10:06 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>
>> +Stephen
>>
>> Hi Masahiro,
>>
>> On 19 February 2015 at 22:25, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Now CONFIG_SPL_BUILD is not defined in Kconfig, so
>>> "!depends on SPL_BUILD" and "if !SPL_BUILD" are redundant.
>
>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
>>> index 41f3220..700e2a8 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
>>> @@ -739,9 +739,8 @@ config TEGRA
>>>          bool "NVIDIA Tegra"
>>>          select SUPPORT_SPL
>>>          select SPL
>>> -       select OF_CONTROL if !SPL_BUILD
>>> -       select CPU_ARM720T if SPL_BUILD
>>> -       select CPU_V7 if !SPL_BUILD
>>> +       select OF_CONTROL
>>> +       select CPU_V7
>>
>>
>> Sorry if I have missed something here. On Tegra most unfortunately the
>> SPL uses ARMv4t and U-Boot proper uses ARMv7. In fact that is the only
>> reason that Tegra has SPL. Doesn't this change with this commit?
>
>
> Yes, on Tegra SPL runs on an ARMv4t and main U-Boot on some ARMv7 CPU. The
> change above is actively incorrect.
>
> The OF_CONTROL change is probably incorrect too; we certainly don't intend
> to use OF_CONTROL in the SPL (there's really nothing to control in the SPL)
> - I just don't know if enabling that feature will cause any issue. Things to
> look out for would be bloat of the SPL binary so that it didn't fit into the
> space before the main binary's TEXT_BASE, since the two get concatenated
> together into a single binary that's loaded into RAM, and XIP'd.

This at least is not a problem with this patch.

I'll make some time to take a look at this in the next few days.

Regards,
Simon