[U-Boot] [EXT] Re: Cavium/Marvell Octeon Support

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 04:44:18PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Aaron,
> 
> In message <2710076.TiSPtmOvtb at flash> you wrote:
> >
> > > What exactly do you need this for?  Why don't you just link your
> > > code with the rest of U-Boot?
> >
> > We need it to obtain and modify the phy parameters. This is a custom 25G 
> > gearbox that needs a lot of hand holding. This may end up being a low priority 
> > (not the gearbox, but the API). It's only a few hundred lines of code (the 
> > API).
> 
> Again you don't answer my question.  Why do you need a special new
> API for such code?  Why do you not just link that code with the rest
> of U-Boot?
> 
> It has been mentioned before, but just to be sure: this code which
> uses your new API is licensed under a GPLv2 conforming lincense?

And, to be blunt, if it is not, handling your non-GPLv2 applications
via an EFI binary is the way forward, not extending the U-Boot binary
ABI, in my opinion.

-- 
Tom
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