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From: Tom Rini [tom.r...@gmail.com] on behalf of Tom Rini [tr...@ti.com]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 2:20 PM
To: Zhang Ying-B40530
Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de; aflem...@gmail.com; x...@theia.denx.de; Wood 
Scott-B07421
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] spl: Make CONFIG_SPL_BUILD contain more 
functionality

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 02:10:49PM +0000, Zhang Ying-B40530 wrote:

> ________________________________________
> From: Tom Rini [tom.r...@gmail.com] on behalf of Tom Rini [tr...@ti.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 12:34 PM
> To: Zhang Ying-B40530
> Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de; Wood Scott-B07421; aflem...@gmail.com; Xie 
> Xiaobo-R63061; Zhang Ying-B40530
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] spl: Make CONFIG_SPL_BUILD contain more 
> functionality
>
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 05:12:19PM +0800, ying.zh...@freescale.com wrote:
>
> > From: Ying Zhang <b40...@freescale.com>
> >
> > There was some functionality will be used in the SPL. They
> > had been excluded by ifndef CONFIG_SPL_BUILD. Now, put it
> > into the SPL.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ying Zhang <b40...@freescale.com>
> > ---
> > Compared with the previous version, give up new symbol and delete the line
> > ifndef CONFIG_SPL_BUILD in common/env_common.c
>
> What the heck is going on?  First, you seem to be changing a number of
> checks from !CONFIG_SPL_BUILD to !CONFIG_SPL_NAND_MINIMAL, and then stop
> defining CONFIG_SPL_NAND_MINIMAL always and only define it for
> CONFIG_SPL_BUILD.
> Next, powerpc uses
> -ffunction-sections/-fdata-sections/--gc-sections so outside of
> assembler files, we shouldn't need to be using CONFIG_SPL_BUILD to not
> build something that's a static function.
> [Zhang Ying]
> First, Your understanding is correct.
> CONFIG_SPL_NAND_MINIMAL has not been used and it suited to express a
> state(CONFIG_SPL_BUILD && CONFIG_SPL_INIT_MINIMAL && CONFIG_NAND)
> So, I used !CONFIG_SPL_NAND_MINIMAL to contain some functionality for
> SD SPL but not for NAND SPL.
>
> Second, I tried. If we don't use !CONFIG_SPL_BUILD to build, the SPL size is
> increased and the SPL size exceeds 4K Bytes. As you know, the NAND SPL
> for mpc85xx can't large than 4K, Now only a few bytes of free space.
>
> Can you please post the everything as a series, including adding the
> board(s) that need environment in SPL?
> [Zhang Ying]
> The patch is split into several in order to facilitate everyone to review.

Right.  So please post a 5 or 10 or whatever part series that shows us
the end goal as well as each step it takes to go from today to that
platform working.  Thanks!
[Zhang Ying]
So for this patch, are there any problem?


--
Tom

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