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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] v2 Linuxstamp II 9260 support
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:16:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091105201639.B848E3F6EC@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c785bba30911042010w6ed4756ep3ee349dd79f0c441@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Paul Thomas,

In message <c785bba30911042010w6ed4756ep3ee349dd79f0c441@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > I have looked at about half of them.
> > It looks like partition tables are identical.

Right, and such duplication should be avoided.

> > I am interested in a way to generalize this file
> > and move it to the cpu layer so all the common
> > or nearly common files can be reduced to 1 file

Me too.

> This structure in partition.c is board specific not cpu specific. Even
> if all the current boards are exactly the same there would need to be
> a way someone could change this in the future without breaking other
> boards. In could be in the .c or .h file if that would make is

Agreed. But as it is, most boards do use the same default settings. So
please let us provide a common default, which can be used where it
fits (which seems to be the majority of systems) and overwritten where
it doesn't fit.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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      reply	other threads:[~2009-11-05 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-04  5:35 [U-Boot] [PATCH] v2 Linuxstamp II 9260 support Paul Thomas
2009-11-04 23:47 ` Tom
2009-11-05  0:19   ` Paul Thomas
2009-11-05  0:39     ` Tom
2009-11-05  4:10       ` Paul Thomas
2009-11-05 20:16         ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]

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