[PATCH 17/19] bootwrapper: compatibility layer for old U-Boots (a.k.a. cuImage, cuboot)

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Mar 15 02:59:00 EST 2007


On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:25:25PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Hmmm... is ppcboot.h a direct copy of a file from somewhere else
> (e.g. uboot), or did you construct it?  It has an *awful* lot of
> ifdefs.  If it is a direct copy from uboot, I can see an argument for
> keeping it as-is, but if not, I think we can come up with a better way
> to structure things.

It's copied from asm-ppc/ppcboot.h, which was presumably copied from
u-boot/ppcboot at some point.  It's certainly ugly, but changing it would
break compatibility (thus negating the point of cuImage).

-Scott



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