Dear Charles, In message <201205161007.59560.mannin...@actrix.gen.nz> you wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2012 17:12:05 Mike Frysinger wrote: ... > > current u-boot policy is to not introduce changes that knowingly break > > other platforms. so if you want to update the common arm config.mk, you > > need to at least compile test all arm boards. ---------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Doesn't that makes it an impossible task? Not having all the boards makes it > pretty hard to test them all.
A compile test does not require any actual hardware. > > other arches are using both fine, so it isn't a problem of common code. > > I might be incorrect, but I have noticed what appears to be some differences > between different versions of binutils. Please be more specific. The same "different versions of binutils" appear to work fine on other architectures ? 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 Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the per- son who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place. - Larry Wall in the perl man page _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot