On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:53:39AM +0200, Henrik Nordstr?m wrote:

> ons 2013-05-22 klockan 11:26 -0400 skrev Tom Rini:
> 
> > If we can implement it cleanly, this isn't (at the 1000 meter view) all
> > that much different than what we do on some PowerPC platforms today
> > where everything must fit within a few kilobytes.
> 
> Yes it is quite doable. The pieces I have done should be possible to fit
> without too much effort.
> 
> The question is more if these kinds of board initialization only
> programs is seen as suitable for having in the u-boot tree.  It's not
> really an SPL as it does not load anything, but it's 99.9% the same code
> as used in u-boot SPL.

My rather poor understanding of how some of the Freescale ARM parts do
SPL is a lot more like this (whack things about, let ROM load next
parts) than the "SPL takes over, loads U-Boot" method.  And this is OK,
in so far as it gets needed jobs done in the resources available.

-- 
Tom

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