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From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2 RESEND] SPL: Allow user to disable CPU support library
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:48:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201109170048.36433.marek.vasut@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E73C8B8.3040505@freescale.com>

On Saturday, September 17, 2011 12:07:52 AM Scott Wood wrote:
> On 09/16/2011 04:47 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Friday, September 16, 2011 11:42:50 PM Scott Wood wrote:
> >> On 09/16/2011 04:38 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>> On Friday, September 16, 2011 09:49:28 PM Scott Wood wrote:
> >>>> Still, this seems hackish.  Shouldn't the control be on specific files
> >>>> that you include, not directories?
> >>> 
> >>> I don't think so ... why ?
> >> 
> >> That's how the main U-Boot build does it...  More specifically, the
> >> config.h controls should be on features, and the makefiles should decide
> >> which (if any) files are required for that feature.  If there are no
> >> files from arch/$(ARCH)/cpu/$(CPU) needed, then we get an empty
> >> lib$(CPU).o -- nothing special needed to avoid it.
> > 
> > Yes, but you basically _always_ want that CPU support code in ... and I
> > have no idea why you'd like to avoid particular files.
> 
> You have no idea why I'd like to be extremely selective with what I
> include in a 4K binary?

That I do understand -- but that kind of selection is there.
> 
> It's not about avoiding particular files.  It's about including
> *nothing* but what is explicitly asked for through some SPL-specific
> CONFIG symbol.  Maybe that includes everything in arch/$(ARCH)/cpu.
> Maybe it includes nothing in there.  More likely, it includes just a
> fraction of it.

The stuff in arch/arm/cpu should be exactly what you need, nothing more !
> 
> If your answer is gc-sections, why do you need to drop the whole
> directory?  And why waste time building entire files that we know we
> don't want?  Why waste time debugging where the sudden bloat came from
> instead of getting a simple and clear undefined-symbol error?
> 
> -Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-16 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-12  4:03 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] SPL improvements Marek Vasut
2011-09-12  4:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2 RESEND] SPL: Make path to start.S configurable Marek Vasut
2011-10-05 19:08   ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-05 20:07     ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-05 20:15       ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-12  4:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2 RESEND] SPL: Allow user to disable CPU support library Marek Vasut
2011-09-15 22:57   ` Scott Wood
2011-09-15 23:17     ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-16 19:49       ` Scott Wood
2011-09-16 21:38         ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-16 21:42           ` Scott Wood
2011-09-16 21:47             ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-16 22:07               ` Scott Wood
2011-09-16 22:48                 ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2011-09-19 18:13                   ` Scott Wood
2011-09-19 22:31                     ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-20 19:12                       ` Scott Wood
2011-09-20 21:16                         ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-20 21:23                           ` Scott Wood
2011-09-20 21:30                             ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-20 23:31                               ` Scott Wood
2011-09-22  8:52                                 ` Marek Vasut
2011-10-05 21:44                                   ` Tom Rini
2011-10-05 22:02                                     ` Scott Wood
2011-10-05 22:20                                       ` Marek Vasut
2011-10-06  0:13   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] " Marek Vasut
2011-10-06  0:13     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] SPL: Allow ARM926EJS to avoid compiling in the CPU support code Marek Vasut
2011-10-18 21:33       ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-10-18 22:30         ` Marek Vasut
2011-10-21 20:44       ` Marek Vasut
2011-10-21 21:52         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-10-21 22:00           ` Marek Vasut
2011-10-21 22:44             ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-10-21 22:46               ` Marek Vasut
2011-10-21 23:08                 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-10-21 23:45                   ` Marek Vasut
2011-10-22  0:04                     ` Tom Rini
2011-10-22  0:19                       ` Marek Vasut
2011-10-22  0:41                         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-10-22  1:20                           ` Marek Vasut
2011-10-22  7:05                             ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-10-24 10:14       ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2 V2] " Marek Vasut
2011-11-03  0:05         ` Marek Vasut
2011-11-04 13:59           ` Marek Vasut
2011-11-08 21:15         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-10-06 15:54     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] SPL: Allow user to disable CPU support library Scott Wood
2011-10-06 23:35       ` Marek Vasut
2011-09-12  4:12 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] SPL improvements Marek Vasut
2011-10-05 11:04 ` Marek Vasut
2011-10-05 19:14   ` Wolfgang Denk

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