-----Original Message----- From: Scott Wood [mailto:scottwood@freescale.com] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:30 PM To: Premi, Sanjeev Cc: Kyungmin Park; Stefan Roese; u-boot@lists.denx.de; Shiraz HASHIM Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Multiple binaries built through u-boot source
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:14:57 +0530 "Premi, Sanjeev" premi@ti.com wrote:
[sp] I was pointed to this thread through another discussion. I did see (almost) an agreement reached here.
But, wanted to share my experience on the same topic.Posed with
same problem, I had looked at minimizing the u-boot binary and had managed to reach 29-30KBNAND SPL typically needs to fit in just 4 KiB (sometimes even less).
In short, shouldn't we make u-boot more "configurable" so that parts we consider "integral" in u-boot today can alsobe excluded
e.g. support for unzip, tftp, ...Those things are configurable. That doesn't mean we don't need makefile infrastructure to build the two (or sometimes three) separate images, or some special code for an extremely minimal image.
[sp] Yes. When we need to be "extremely" small separate infra may be needed. But for rest, I feel we could/ should continue using the generic makefile infra - with more configuration options - that keeps maintenance low.
I also feel that needs/requirements for the extremely small images will differ between the users. Maintaining compatibility will be a challenge for a common codebase.
~sanjeev
-Scott