Re: CVS: blob/src/commands regs-sa11x0.c,1.1,NONE

[Erik M. <J.A...@it...>]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 08:49:17AM +0100, Stefan Eletzhofer wrote:
> 
> Am Sonntag den, 17. Februar 2002, um 20:58, schrieb Erik Mouw:
> >remove file because it shouldn't be shared with blob
> 
> Why?
> 
> Why don't we allow the user to choose wether or not he wants the 
> commands in blob and/or diag?
> regs and memchk are perfectly usable in both diag and blob.

Because that was *exactly* the reason why we made a distinction between
blob and diag. Blob is a bootloader, memchk and regs are for testing
the board so they should be moved to diag.

> IMHO only command which are
> - not usable in diag because of missing infrastructure
> - only in diag for certain platforms
> should be not allowed to be shared.

Only commands that make sense to be shared should be shared.

> I know of the blob-size issue, but this should be gone by now.

It's not about the size, it's about simplicity.


Erik

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