Dear Tom, In message <20140305172806.GY16805@bill-the-cat> you wrote: > > I'm looking over some patches for am43xx to enable the case of non-SPL > XIP booting and this means we start getting code that's shared with > am335x that looks like:
What exactly do you mean by "non-SPL XIP booting"? Is this not the standard boot mode which has actually been the first (and only one) that U-Boot has ever been designed for, like booting from a ROM (like parallel NOR flash)? Because the we do exactly that: we execute the code as is from the boot device... > Because we need to do certain init either in SPL or early U-Boot. While > I don't see another XIP boot case being added anytime soon, it would be > nice to instead write: What you call "XIP boot" is the default for all systems booting from NOR flash (or other boot ROM) - or am I missing something? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything. - Karl Lehenbauer _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot