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From: Igor Grinberg <grinberg@compulab.co.il>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] arm: add CONFIG_MACH_TYPE option and documentation
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:12:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E1329D4.3080408@compulab.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110705140836.GA1927@harvey-pc.matrox.com>

On 07/05/11 17:08, charvey at matrox.com wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 12:16:12AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> Dear Christopher Harvey,
>>
>> In message <20110704210619.GA3218@harvey-pc.matrox.com> you wrote:
>>> I'm curious, is it a feature that bd->bi_arch_number can be set at
>>> runtime? Do any boards actually make a decision about what value to
>> Yes, this is a feature. It comes in handy in a number of cases.
>>
>>> set this to? If not, then maybe it should be a required value.  I've
>> Why?
> Because if every machine sets an essentially static value at runtime
> then it would be a nice compile-time check to do. But, there is no
> point since the bi_arch_number isn't fixed for each u-boot
> configuration.

Right.

>>> submitted some patches that deal with the same sort of issue, so I'm
>>> interested in seeing that happens to this one.
>> Sorry, I can't follow...
> I was refering to this patch:
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/103149/
> which is similar. 

No, you are wrong! It is not similar even a bit! It does completely different thing.
Your patch: warns about machine type not set.
My patch: just adds a configuration _option_ which you can use, but you don't have to.
See... It is not the same!



-- 
Regards,
Igor.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-05 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-04  9:00 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] arm: add CONFIG_MACH_TYPE option and documentation Igor Grinberg
2011-07-04  9:00 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] arm: nvidia and smdk6400: use common code for machine type Igor Grinberg
2011-07-04  9:00 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] arm: omap: innovator: " Igor Grinberg
2011-07-04 21:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] arm: add CONFIG_MACH_TYPE option and documentation Christopher Harvey
2011-07-04 22:03   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-07-04 22:03     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-07-04 22:16   ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-07-05 14:08     ` charvey at matrox.com
2011-07-05 15:12       ` Igor Grinberg [this message]
2011-07-05  7:10   ` Igor Grinberg
2011-07-06 18:53 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-07-06 20:05   ` Igor Grinberg
2011-07-07 16:07     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-07-07 16:51       ` Igor Grinberg
2011-07-07 17:46         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-07-07 21:06           ` Igor Grinberg
2011-07-13  5:52             ` Igor Grinberg
2011-07-14 14:10               ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-07-14 14:20                 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-07-14 14:57                   ` Igor Grinberg
2011-07-14 15:45                     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/3] arm: add CONFIG_MACH_TYPE setting " Igor Grinberg
2011-07-17  6:56                       ` Igor Grinberg
2011-07-17  9:10                         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-07-17  9:08                       ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-07-27 10:31                       ` Chander Kashyap
2011-07-27 13:04                         ` Igor Grinberg
2011-07-28  6:41                           ` Chander Kashyap
2011-07-28  7:59                             ` Igor Grinberg
2011-07-28  8:19                               ` Chander Kashyap
2011-07-28  8:58                                 ` Igor Grinberg
2011-08-04 12:05                                   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-08-11  4:16                                     ` Chander Kashyap

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