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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 16/20] Roll crc32 into hash infrastructure
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:14:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130218231406.5373C200538@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPnjgZ09okKf0qTnifKOrvg37nEnSNLFzyLBLp+4jt6U_L3RCg@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Simon,

In message <CAPnjgZ09okKf0qTnifKOrvg37nEnSNLFzyLBLp+4jt6U_L3RCg@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> > -> bloat-o-meter u-boot-before u-boot
> 
> What board is this please?

That was TQM5200S

> This is the generic hashing command. What is happening here is that
> the crc32 command is getting a few more features, more like sha1sum.
> However, this might not be desriable - and in fact this patch changes
> the behaviour of the CRC storage and verify to support using an
> environment variable, and requiring * before the argument when an
> address is required! That needs to be fixed, at least.

Indeed - such a change of user interface must not be done here (though
it does make a lot of sense to use common code for this stuff).

> The intent is to try to unify the hashing/crc features into a single

Understood and appreciayed.

> framework. If you enable only crc32 and nothing else then this has
> quite a cost (0.5KB at present). I think I can reduce this code by
> making the full features of hash.c only available when something more
> than just crc32 is enabled. However, it might involve some #ifdefs...

Actually 0.5 k is quite heavy impact, so I guess the #ifdef's win...


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-18 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-26 18:56 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/20] Improvements to memory, hashing functions for sandbox Simon Glass
2012-12-26 18:56 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 01/20] Tidy up error checking and fix bug in hash command Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:48   ` Simon Glass
2012-12-26 18:56 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 02/20] Update print_buffer() to use const Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:49   ` Simon Glass
2012-12-26 18:56 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 03/20] sandbox: Improve sandbox serial port keyboard interface Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:49   ` Simon Glass
2012-12-26 18:56 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 04/20] sandbox: Add un/map_sysmen() to deal with sandbox's ram_buf Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:51   ` Simon Glass
2012-12-26 18:56 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 05/20] sandbox: Change memory commands to use map_physmem Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:51   ` Simon Glass
2012-12-26 18:56 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 06/20] Split out the memory tests into separate functions Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:52   ` Simon Glass
2012-12-26 18:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 07/20] Use common mtest iteration counting Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:52   ` Simon Glass
2012-12-26 18:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 08/20] Fix mtest indenting Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:53   ` Simon Glass
2012-12-26 18:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 09/20] Bring mtest putc() into common code Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:53   ` Simon Glass
2012-12-26 18:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 10/20] Reduce casting in mtest Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:54   ` Simon Glass
2012-12-26 18:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 11/20] Update set_working_fdt_addr() to use setenv_addr() Simon Glass
2013-02-14 20:00   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] common/main: move set_working_fdt_addr to enable usage of $fdtaddr Barak Wasserstrom
2013-02-15 23:54   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 11/20] Update set_working_fdt_addr() to use setenv_addr() Simon Glass
2013-02-25 10:52   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] common/main: move set_working_fdt_addr to enable usage of $fdtaddr Barak Wasserstrom
2013-02-27 18:48   ` Barak Wasserstrom
2012-12-26 18:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 12/20] common: Use new numeric setenv functions Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:55   ` Simon Glass
2013-02-18 22:08   ` Tom Rini
2013-02-24 17:45     ` Simon Glass
2013-02-24 20:53       ` Tom Rini
2013-02-25  3:42         ` Simon Glass
2012-12-26 18:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 13/20] drivers: " Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:55   ` Simon Glass
2013-02-18 22:37   ` Tom Rini
2012-12-26 18:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 14/20] net: " Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:56   ` Simon Glass
2012-12-26 18:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 15/20] image: Use crc header file instead of C prototypes Simon Glass
2012-12-26 22:02   ` Marek Vasut
2013-02-15 23:56     ` Simon Glass
2012-12-26 18:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 16/20] Roll crc32 into hash infrastructure Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:57   ` Simon Glass
2013-02-17 20:53     ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-02-17 21:34       ` Simon Glass
2013-02-17 23:26       ` Tom Rini
2013-02-18 11:35         ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-02-18 16:36           ` Simon Glass
2013-02-18 17:05             ` Tom Rini
2013-02-18 17:06           ` Simon Glass
2013-02-18 22:45             ` Tom Rini
2013-02-19  5:24               ` Simon Glass
2013-02-20 17:04               ` Simon Glass
2013-02-18 23:14             ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2012-12-26 18:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 17/20] sandbox: config: Enable hash functions and mtest Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:57   ` Simon Glass
2012-12-26 18:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 18/20] Move CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH #ifdef to top of file Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:58   ` Simon Glass
2012-12-26 18:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 19/20] sandbox: Update mtest to fix crashes Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:58   ` Simon Glass
2012-12-26 18:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 20/20] sandbox: Allow hash functions to work correctly Simon Glass
2013-02-15 23:58   ` Simon Glass
2013-02-18 22:49 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/20] Improvements to memory, hashing functions for sandbox Tom Rini

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