>> I'm adding a new board. It's very similar to freescale's P2020DS, that's >> why I used this code as starting point. The problem is now that it still >> uses some code from board/freescale/common. At the first try this >> didn't get built and therefore I get link errors. What's the preferred >> way in this case? >> >> - Is it allowed to use sources inside another board/vendor? > >It is allowed, but not recommended. You are running the risk that the >board vendor may make arbitrary changes to his board code, which may >work fine for him, but break your board. And you cannot even blame >him, because he probably is not even aware that this code gets used by >others who rely on it. > >It is recommended to move such code to a common directory. > >> - Is it better to link to it or should I just copy the files into our >> vendor or board directory? > >Please do not copy any files. Duplication of code is the worst that >can be done in such a szenario. > >> - If it's okay to link to objects from another place, how can I >> adjust the makefiles/config.mk so the freescale's common >> lib is built as well? I know makefiles but u-boot is quite high >> level usage. > >Before we go into details we should define a strategy. Can you please >be specific: which exact files are you talking about?
One thing was pixis, but as we don't have that FPGA I could remove all references to it. Also missing was the eeprom so I got a link error for mac_read_from_eeprom. We mainly want to use U-Boot to initialize the CPU and DRAM. As this is a PCIe-card for the PC we can then download all other things we need. So I could also remove the EEPROM support. I cleaned the config file up and removed things we don't have. I can now build for my board without using anything from freescale/common, so the problem is solved for now. I will think about it if we need to add something and the error comes up again. Thanks for your help. bye Fabi _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
