Hi Mike,
On Monday 14 April 2008, Detlev Zundel wrote:
we maintain a Blackfin-specific u-boot wiki that goes into quite a bit of detail, some of which is duplicated with the main u-boot wiki. how do people feel about extending the u-boot wiki to allow for arch-specific details ?
What exactly do you have in mind? I surely don't see any principal problem here.
It would certainly be valuable to get all U-Boot related info collected in a central place and have pointers wherever that make sense...
from my reading of the wiki, it's more of a technical/command reference than a guide. the wiki we maintain is geared to be more of a guide. i think the two can be merged, i just dont want to convert things only to find out people dont want to take it that direction.
Just to be clear, we are discussing the DULG wiki, right?
I agree that in the current state the documentation is more a reference but IIRC that wasn't really a conscious design decision. It simply turned out this way in the end.
So I do not see any general problem in adding "guide style" sections in there. Maybe then most of the current documentation can then be shifted to a "commands reference" section.
One problem I see though is how to correctly adapt such sections to the board specific nature of the DULG. Hopefully we can get away with mostly generic text passages and only a few ifdefs. It would be very helpful to know more concrete plans (outline!) to think further about these implications.
Cheers Detlev