Dear Scott Wood, In message <20101005113126.215b5...@udp111988uds.am.freescale.net> you wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 04:08:12 -0400 > Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > On Monday, October 04, 2010 13:36:14 Scott Wood wrote: > > > I'm wondering if we should just make this the default behavior. We > > > already deferred the bad block scanning, perhaps this could replace > > > that. > > > > i would like that, but Wolfgang indicated in the past that the default > > behavior of detecting the nand flash & printing out its size was desirable. > > > > perhaps that stance is flexible ... > > So much for "U-Boot doesn't initialize hardware that it doesn't use." :-)
U-Boot has a > 10 year long history. In that time we learned a lesson or two, and some things would today not be accepted any more that once seemed to be pretty innocent or even a clever thing. I think the delayed initialization of NAND (or should we rather call it "on demand initialization" ?) is indeed a good thing, and a definite improvement. If possible, I would like to see this the default setting for all new board to be added. Existing boards should have the option to select this behaviour, too. What I do not want to do (if it can be avoided) is change the default behaviour of existing boards, i. e. I would like to leave this decision to the respective board maintainers (in the active opt-in sense). Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Too many people are ready to carry the stool when the piano needs to be moved. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
