From: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] powerpc: Cleanup BOOTFLAG_* usage
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:53:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1284389585.26713.2967.camel@petert> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009130827.21823.sr@denx.de>
On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 08:27 +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
> On Monday 13 September 2010 07:34:40 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > > BOOTFLAG_COLD and BOOTFLAG_WARM have identical definitions for every
> > > PowerPC board, so share a common definition.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
> > > ---
> > > It looks like there are only a few boards (5) that use the warm/cold
> > > boot concept, maybe we should remove this largely unused feature?
> > > Or at least remove it for most CPU types? Is anyone out there
> > > using it?
> >
> > I added this with the very first versions of PPCBoot, more than a
> > decade ago. I've never seen it really used in the code.
> >
> > I vote for removing it.
>
> Me too:
>
> Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Sounds good, I'll resubmit. Getting rid of the BOOTFLAG_* defines will
make bd->bi_bootflags unused. What's the policy on modifying the
bd_info structure? Leave an unused bi_bootflags field to prevent
breakage of OSes?
Best,
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-13 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-13 5:21 [U-Boot] [PATCH] powerpc: Cleanup BOOTFLAG_* usage Peter Tyser
2010-09-13 5:34 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-13 6:27 ` Stefan Roese
2010-09-13 14:53 ` Peter Tyser [this message]
2010-09-13 22:02 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-13 22:13 ` Scott Wood
2010-09-14 2:40 ` Peter Tyser
2010-10-12 20:49 ` Wolfgang Denk
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