On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 12:16:12AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Christopher Harvey,
In message 20110704210619.GA3218@harvey-pc.matrox.com you wrote:
I'm curious, is it a feature that bd->bi_arch_number can be set at runtime? Do any boards actually make a decision about what value to
Yes, this is a feature. It comes in handy in a number of cases.
set this to? If not, then maybe it should be a required value. I've
Why?
Because if every machine sets an essentially static value at runtime then it would be a nice compile-time check to do. But, there is no point since the bi_arch_number isn't fixed for each u-boot configuration.
submitted some patches that deal with the same sort of issue, so I'm interested in seeing that happens to this one.
Sorry, I can't follow...
I was refering to this patch: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/103149/ which is similar.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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-Chris