From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom.gr>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
Embedded Linux PPC list <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: random ramblings on 8xx patches (long and tedious :-)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:22:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040723172210.5B396C109F@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:42:54 +0300." <410123EE.4000602@intracom.gr>
In message <410123EE.4000602@intracom.gr> you wrote:
>
> IMHO we shouldn't even bother.
oops???
> Then everything should be automatically set up at run-time, based
> on probing code which should detect the rest.
You must be joking. This is for embedded systems, and code size and
especially boot time are critical.
Also, this suggestion does not coder Robert's intention of preventint
the user from selecting bogus configuration options for stuff which
doesn't exist on his chip.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-23 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-22 12:00 random ramblings on 8xx patches (long and tedious :-) Robert P. J. Day
2004-07-22 17:46 ` Matt Porter
2004-07-23 12:34 ` Robert P. J. Day
2004-07-23 13:36 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-07-23 14:09 ` Robert P. J. Day
2004-07-23 14:56 ` Wolfgang Denk
[not found] ` <410123EE.4000602@intracom.gr>
2004-07-23 15:56 ` Mark Chambers
2004-07-23 17:22 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2004-07-23 21:06 ` Linux is not reliable enough? Kevin P. Dankwardt
2004-07-24 3:02 ` Linh Dang
2004-07-24 6:29 ` Der Herr Hofrat
2004-07-25 16:23 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-07-24 11:35 ` Mark Chambers
2004-07-24 22:14 ` MPC8245 Error No. 26 DeLaGarza, Robert
2004-07-26 7:49 ` Linux is not reliable enough? Marius Groeger
2004-07-26 13:46 ` Mark Chambers
2004-07-26 14:31 ` Der Herr Hofrat
2004-07-26 15:42 ` Marius Groeger
2004-07-27 11:20 ` Robert Kaiser
2004-07-27 13:29 ` Mark Chambers
2004-07-24 21:44 ` Sylvain Munaut
2004-07-25 3:00 ` Could 2_4_devel support RPXlite DW LCD panel? Song Sam
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-22 17:10 random ramblings on 8xx patches (long and tedious :-) Wells, Charles
2004-07-22 17:35 ` Dan Malek
2004-07-23 8:48 ` Jaap-Jan Boor
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