[U-Boot] initcall revisited - A new idea to discuss

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear "Hebbar, Gururaja",

In message <1BAFE6F6C881BF42822005164F1491C305CE73@DBDE01.ent.ti.com> you wrote:
> 
> > Well I kind of like see that a particular init function is explicitly a
> > pre- or post- relocation function. But yes, having barrier pre-requisites
> > would achieve the same effect.

This point of vew is too restricted.  Think of boards that use SPL, or
where a rom boot loader loads U-Boot directory to RAM, or ...

> > SKIP_INIT(foo) simply removes all 'foo' init functions from the list
> > _after_ the list has been created - If this breaks dependencies that's
> > your problem ;). It is up to you as the 'skipper' to make sure that you
> > add init functions to allow things to still work
> 
> Won't this lead to lots of code duplication across all boards, archs. 
> So, tomorrow someone else will send a patch removing duplicate and merging 
> it to a common place. 

I don't see why that would happen?  I see no intention nor any need
for duplicated code.

> So, every board, even under same arch, needs to define its own *complete-set* 
> of INIT_CALL api's. I am dreaming about a lot of MB getting added to u-boot 
> src. 

What makes you think so?

> Just a thought. Why don't split it to ARCH_INIT, BOARD_INIT,. 

Because it's not such an easy split. You can define such groups, like
arch, SoC, board family, board.  But you cannot initialize the system
in such grous - instead, initialization will jump around heavily
between these groups, in a sequence that needs to be well defined, and
that is often diofferent from board to board.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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