[U-Boot] Multiple device support - none at all?

[Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>]

Hello ksi,

ksi at koi8.net wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>
>   
>> Dear ksi at koi8.net,
>>
>> In message <Pine.LNX.4.64ksi.0903121203270.8874@home-gw.koi8.net> you wrote:
>>     
[...]
>>> It was _NOT_ a discussion. It ceased to be one after a couple of days. You
>>> guys somehow got scared by innocent CPP tricks and then discussion degraded
>>> to junk. I didn't even tell that there _IS_ a whole bunch of very similar
>>> CPP-generated code already in U-Boot source. Look at e.g. drivers/pci/pci.c
>>> or drivers/pci/pci_indirect.c...
>>>       
>> Well, I think you can blame both sides. You also provided your share
>> of unproven claims, ignoring other opinions, etc.
>>     
>
> No, I gave a logical analysis. I did not build several versions and compared
>   

That was the problem, you didn;t tried my code ... you just trusted your
theory.

> them but it is not required. It is only needed if there is no logic or
> theoretical solution and result can not be calculated. There is nothing more
> practical than a good theory.
>   

Maybe there are more than one good theory?

> Numerous experiments in the dark is not an effective way to do things. It
>   

I really don;t want to start this discussion here again, before v2009.03 is
released, but we did such an analysis, and I posted patches for example
how we can do the bitbang driver in another way. You just ignored it. If
you did a analysis of the code I posted, you would have seen that for the
bitbang driver our sourcecode changes were minimal, and resulting
codesize is smaller than in your approach. But please, starting with
this discussion when code is public ...

bye
Heiko

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