Hi Stefan, 2015-10-29 11:02 GMT+01:00 Stefan Roese <s...@denx.de>: > Hi Dirk, > > On 29.10.2015 10:54, Dirk Eibach wrote: >> >> 2015-10-28 17:39 GMT+01:00 Stefan Roese <s...@denx.de>: >>> >>> ... And please note that you can use the >>> runtime SoC detection for this: >>> >>> if (mvebu_soc_family() == MVEBU_SOC_A38X) >>> >>> So no new #idefs are needed in such places. >> >> >> Just give me a quick update please. Why is runtime detection better? >> Is it about code coverage? What about binary footprint? > > > We try hard not to add more #idef's to the U-Boot source code > if possible. This is definitely one of the reasons. Another > is, that this runtime detection will enable support for > multiple SoC's in one binary image. This is currently not the > case, but we should try to work this way if its not too > hard. And these places for the SoC detection are pretty easy > to achieve. > > The image size will of course be affected. But this drawback is > outweighed by the pros noted above. At least from my point of > view.
Ok, that's the information I needed. I will adapt this to runtime detection. Cheers Dirk _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
