From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Nelson Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 15:24:41 -0700 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH RFC] imx: add multi-architecture README In-Reply-To: <20131109211656.AC5083811CC@gemini.denx.de> References: <1384027962-11556-1-git-send-email-eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com> <527E99CB.7030804@boundarydevices.com> <20131109211656.AC5083811CC@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <527EB629.4030101@boundarydevices.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Thanks Wolfgang, On 11/09/2013 02:16 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Eric Nelson, > > In message <527E99CB.7030804@boundarydevices.com> you wrote: >> >> As I mentioned yesterday, I'd like to get some agreement about some >> of the fundamentals of how we'll do multi-arch, since they have an >> impact on some patches in flight, notably > > We should be really precise when using terms like "architecture". > Multi-arch would actually mean that one U-Boot image was capable of > running on - say - both ARM and MIPS processors. > > We are not in a shape to even be able to run on all boards of a single > processor family within the same architecture. Even if others use > Big Words for their marketing documents, we should stick to plain > technical facts and use appropriate names. > Points taken.