[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot-NG ?

Wolfgang Grandegger
2007-07-03T19:59:10Z

Grant Likely wrote:
> On 7/3/07, Rune Torgersen <runet@innovsys.com> wrote:
>>> From: Grant Likely
>>> On 7/3/07, Rune Torgersen <runet@innovsys.com> wrote:
>>> Other than effort required; any objection to changing that approach?
>>>
>> I personally believe that the terminal output capabilities of U-Boot (ie
>> having serial or other output almost as soon as you can run C code) is
>> one of the biggest strong points of u-boot, and are very useful when
>> doing a board bringup or debugging non-working boards.
>> Changing that would be a mistake on my opinion (even for reducing code
>> size/complexity).
>
> Sorry; let me be more specific; any objection to moving device
> initialization to *after* relocation to RAM. I'm not asking about
> removing console output.

Initialization of some devices could even be deferred until they are
really used like PCMCIA/IDE or DTT.

Wolfgang.