On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 04:44:18PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Aaron,
In message 2710076.TiSPtmOvtb@flash you wrote:
What exactly do you need this for? Why don't you just link your code with the rest of U-Boot?
We need it to obtain and modify the phy parameters. This is a custom 25G gearbox that needs a lot of hand holding. This may end up being a low priority (not the gearbox, but the API). It's only a few hundred lines of code (the API).
Again you don't answer my question. Why do you need a special new API for such code? Why do you not just link that code with the rest of U-Boot?
It has been mentioned before, but just to be sure: this code which uses your new API is licensed under a GPLv2 conforming lincense?
And, to be blunt, if it is not, handling your non-GPLv2 applications via an EFI binary is the way forward, not extending the U-Boot binary ABI, in my opinion.