[U-Boot] [RFC/PATCH] tools: New 'spl-stackusage' script

["Andreas Bießmann" <andreas.devel@googlemail.com>]

Hi Siarhei,

On 02/11/2015 05:15 AM, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:15:33 +0100
> "Andreas Bie?mann" <andreas.devel@googlemail.com> wrote:

>> Another point ... I really appreciate your efforts to bring this tool
>> in. So don't get me wrong, but ... why ruby?
> 
> That's because I know ruby, but don't know python at the moment.

That's a good reason.

> Why I have picked ruby over python some years ago is another story.
> But I don't want to start a programming language holy war here :)
> 
>> A while ago some guys started to introduce python for some complex
>> scripts, before that u-boot only had shell scripts.
>> I personally think one interpreter in u-boot world is enough. I'm
>> curious how others think about that.
> 
> If python is a requirement, then I will have to learn it first. Which
> is fair enough. But this requirement first needs to be explicitly
> communicated by somebody.

For me it is not a real requirement, I'm fine with ruby when it works as
expected. The dynamic stack allocation should be considered in the tool
even though FAT would be converted to malloc(2) (some days ;).

Best regards

Andreas Bie?mann