From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Hawkins Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:43:39 -0700 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Proposal for a make option to include an additional stand alone program directory In-Reply-To: <20070426200258.465C5353414@atlas.denx.de> References: <20070426200258.465C5353414@atlas.denx.de> Message-ID: <46310EFB.3020503@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 Wolfgang, >> 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 > > If you are willing to release your code under GPL, it is definitely > welcome to be added to the U-Boot source tree. In cases whwere this > code is board-specific it makes sense to add it to the specfic board > directory. Thi shas been done before in similar cases. > >> 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. > > There are several test utilities, but no general infrastructure yet. Ok, good to know. That is the direction I will go once I get back to the software design. I need to get the hardware done first :) Dave