From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Hawkins Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:37:00 -0700 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Proposal for a make option to include an additional stand alone program directory In-Reply-To: <1628E43D99629C46988BE46087A3FBB997AEF1@ep-01.EmbeddedPlanet.local> References: <1628E43D99629C46988BE46087A3FBB997AEF1@ep-01.EmbeddedPlanet.local> Message-ID: <4630F14C.8020705@ovro.caltech.edu> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Jeff, > I want to add a featue to the makefile configuration so that a user can > compile u-boot including a directory that gets compiled as a stand alone > program. This sounds like a good idea. I am developing a custom MPC8349E board that I'll submit a U-Boot patch for when its done. I also plan to build a test-suite that executes as a u-boot stand-alone application. Its not clear to me that such a test suite should also be added into the U-Boot source, since its board-specific; more so than whatever changes to the current MPC8349E support I need to get the board booted. Although, I have no intention of hiding the test-suite source code. I figured I'd submit the board support patch, and then just maintain the test-suite locally, with an email reference in a u-boot README to anyone who wanted to get access to the test-suite code. Of course, if lots of people build test suites using U-Boot, and there is common code, I'd be happy to use it. I just haven't looked for it in the source yet. The test suite would involve programming Altera FPGAs with FPGA configurations, running pin-to-pin tests, etc. So is this the intention of your proposal, or just another use-case your proposal would support? Cheers Dave