[U-Boot] [PATCH] Canyonlands SATA harddisk driver

Wolfgang Denk
2009-06-04T08:40:22Z

Dear Kazuaki Ichinohe,

In message <4A247247.70505@fsi.co.jp> you wrote:
...
> >But, other local, private, resource management structures are encouraged
> >to be shrinked/optimized, as it's just waste of ROM space.
>
> Originally U-boot of PowerPC is not importance for the size because the size is large.

Size *is* important. Please read the docs - it's pointed out again and
again.

> It is important to maintain interchangeability with the Linux kernel driver.
> It is important that maintenance is good.

Agreed.

But we can easily disable / #define out unused parts of the code and
data structures as Jean-Christophe suggested, without adding any
significant maintenance problems.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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