Dear Valentin Longchamp,
In message c5ba4fd44d7260d169b924ddda97c4a4c7460dd5.1302272395.git.valentin.longchamp@keymile.com you wrote:
From: Holger Brunck holger.brunck@keymile.com
This patch rename mgcoge2ne board support to mgcoge3ne. The board is similar to mgcoge. The difference is that a NUMONYX flash is used and a larger SDRAM (256MB). Also introduce CONFIG_KM_82XX to collect ppc82xx common settings.
I understand this is just a rename, but I want to ask anyway: if flash type and RAM size are the only differences, then why do we need two separate board definitions here?
Would not even the same U-Boot binary image run on both boards? These flashes are CFI compatible, so the CFI driver would work on both, and RAM size autodetection has been available in U-Boot forever.
In worst case, we coul differentiate boards by an additional #define, which means we only need a single line entry in boards.cfg.
Why do we need to support two board entries?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk