From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:27:31 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] SPL framework re-design In-Reply-To: References: <4DF9B9E0.8020206@ti.com> <20110616104716.762DD19E5AC3@gemini.denx.de> <4DFA00B8.7000807@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20110627092731.3532D202C61@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Ilya, In message you wrote: > > I wonder why do we need this whole spl thing in the first place (well, > surely I know what they are used for but why do we need a separate entity > for this)? Isn't it just the same U-Boot in, well, very special configuration > (minimal set of drivers, no shell, etc)? Why do we need a whole shadow tree > at spl/ instead of just providing the _configuration_? Good point. Eventually we can just add additional build rules for new object files (say, ".splo" instead of ".o") ? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de "Have you lived in this village all your life?" "No, not yet."