Dear Remy Bohmer,
In message AANLkTinv_4m6CfVzGd+ofF1cinzUWEJHiutdd9rPfgas@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
There are so many lines changed already in the code that claoming "This file is copied from Linux." does not make much sense any more.
Well, it is derived from 2.6.27, not latest git. True, there are differences, but mostly it is a strip down of the original code( /proc support is removed for example) And I also noticed that the file can be synced to Linux more than it currently is...
Well, if your argument is true that the current code can easily be kept in sync with Linux, then why is it already 8 kernel releases old?
How about syncing it with Linux, before adding it to U-Boot?
Yep, if that happens things are really broken...
So broken that you cannot get back to the command line interpreter? Really?
If malloc is broken, I consider that reason enough for hang/reboot...
That's not a good idea. Please fix.
And that justifies it all.
No, but please look at the overall goal here. It was the goal to use the Linux code as much as-is, and to allow easy merging new driver code in the future. Everything can be made better, but in that case I would prefer to first make the origin better, and port that back to U-boot.
Well, the origin has improved by 8 kernel releases since.
Would it make sense to update?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk