Hi Masahiro, On 5 October 2016 at 20:02, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> wrote: > Hi Simon, > > > 2016-10-06 1:50 GMT+09:00 Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>: > >> Long term, I am wondering if ATF could be a library instead of a >> separate binary? Or perhaps it could be build so that it can be linked >> against. > > > ATF is runtime firmware, so it will stay there while the system is running. > On the other hand, the memory allocated for U-Boot can be freed > after the system boot up.
That is changing, e.g. with EFI_LOADER. Also it is possible on x86 that some code may hang around (if SMM etc. is implemented in U-Boot). > > > In the first place, this is a license issue. > > U-Boot GPL vs ATF BSD. > > I think they can not be linked together. Ah OK. Is it not permitted to link a BSD library into U-Boot? Anyway, that is not so important I suppose. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
