[U-Boot] [PATCH] mtd: Update MTD infrastructure to support 64bit device size

From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] mtd: Update MTD infrastructure to support 64bit device size
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:50:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A3FD276.4090503@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A3FCF8F.1050405@googlemail.com>

Dirk Behme wrote:
> Because every non-U-Boot expert who just downloads recent git and 
> compiles it will get the warning and will wonder if something is wrong 
> or not. So yes, the check doesn't hurt, but the warning might confuse 
> the users, which are non-experts.

And the answer to that user is that something *is* wrong, and should be 
reported to the board maintainer so they can enable 64-bit printf.

>> We could get rid of it of course if we would enable this 64bit printf format 
>> on all platforms and removed this option completely. This would cost a bit of 
>> image size but would make things easier/simpler. Just my 0.02$...

Agreed.  Or once we get kconfig we can have it be selected by any code 
that requires it.

-Scott