[U-Boot] [RFC] PPC: post_word_{load/store} - eliminate redundant code

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Michael Zaidman,

In message <x2h660c0f821004210624y32636405j7746304a059def4a@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> Meanwhile the  post_word_{load/store} are located in the commproc.c
> files for the following architectures:
> mpc8260,
> mpc85xx,
> mpc8xx,
> ppc4xx.
> 
> Looking for the way to add POST functionality for the mpc83xx family I
> realized that the post_word_{load/store} can be generalized for all
> ppc architectures.
> 
> Could you point please to the file where such kind of things - common
> for all CPU families of particular architecture should be located?

Actually there are two parts to it:

bootcount_store() and bootcount_load() are needed for the boot
counter, a generic feature; I tend to move these into
arch/powerpc/lib/bootcount.c; the code also needs to be rewritten to
use I/O accessors.

post_word_store() and post_word_load() is architecture specific,
common POST code that unfortunately also gets used by the logbuffer
code. This should be split. Then we would have
arch/powerpc/lib/logbuf.c and post/arch/powerpc/post_io.c or such.

Please also note that there are more files implementing such code -
see for example here:

	board/cm5200/cm5200.c
	board/bf537-stamp/post.c
	board/barco/barco.c
	board/bc3450/bc3450.c
	board/ssv/common/post.c
	board/tqc/tqm5200/tqm5200.c
	board/xes/xpedite1000/xpedite1000.c


Thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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