On 20:19 Sat 23 May , Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD, > > In message <20090523150558.gb26...@game.jcrosoft.org> you wrote: > > > > Linux Kernel has for a long time a well-optimized mechanism for for > > calling initiallisation code. Import the the same functionnality to > > U-Boot. > > > > Evenif it will increase a few U-Boot (999 bytes) as show in PATCH 3/3 > > if we convert the NET_MULTI it will decrease of 2212 bytes at the end > > What would be the purpose of this in a boot loader? > > For Linux iot makes sense to free each and every byte which is no > longer needed because applications running can really benefir from > it. But in U-Boot? Please check the memory map of the running system. > The memory regained will not even be usable by anybody... it you read the patch 1 you will see that I've no which to free it > > What sort of benefit do you expect? simplify the code, reduce the number of ifdef reduce the size of U-Boot etc...
I do have some test and I've gain between 2KiB and more than 10KiB by using this so yes I think it's great winn Best Regards, J. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
