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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] powerpc/85xx: corenet_ds: increase console buffer size to 1024
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:57:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110928205706.BCF66140799B@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E821558.8030902@freescale.com>

Dear Scott Wood,

In message <4E821558.8030902@freescale.com> you wrote:
>
> > You don't write all your C code in a single line per function, or do
> > you?
> 
> Of course not, but this a rather different environment, that doesn't
> support multiline code in the same way.  It's more like macro
> substitution, and yes, there are times when I'd have C macros that are
> more than 256 characters.

Actually U-Boot does support multi-line macro definitions...

> If 256 is "more than reasonably long", are you going to force all the
> boards that set it to 512 or 1024 to change?  Or does this just apply to
> those boards that were unlucky enough to not have the bigger limit from
> day one?

Neither one nore the other.

It applies to boards that use strings in their default environment
that exceed the length of the buffer.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-28 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-22 16:38 [U-Boot] [PATCH] powerpc/85xx: corenet_ds: increase console buffer size to 1024 Kim Phillips
2011-09-23 18:22 ` Kumar Gala
2011-09-23 19:00   ` Kim Phillips
2011-09-25 20:11     ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-26 16:27       ` Kim Phillips
2011-09-26 18:09         ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-26 21:11           ` Scott Wood
2011-09-26 22:15             ` Brian Grayson
2011-09-26 22:55             ` Kim Phillips
2011-09-27  9:45             ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-27 18:26               ` Scott Wood
2011-09-28 20:57                 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]

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