[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 02/10] armv7: add miscellaneous utility macros

Wolfgang Denk
2011-05-16T05:51:02Z

Dear Simon Glass,

In message <BANLkTi=ZL-WHPE9mXDgBZzXoEaZ10pBhsg@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> Being a boot loader, charged with basic hardware initialisation, I believe
> bitfield access primitives should be well-supported by U-Boot.

I agree, and they are.

> Would you consider an RFC patch to add pan-U-Boot bitfield operations?
> Failing that, how about just for ARM?

I fail to understand what you mean. We already have such
implementations in place. I just oobject against adding new,
non-standard ones when the existing ones perform the same purpose.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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