Dear Scott Wood,
In message 20101005113126.215b5df6@udp111988uds.am.freescale.net you wrote:
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 04:08:12 -0400 Mike Frysinger vapier@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