[coreboot] [PATCH 3/5] artecgroup/dbe61: Gather RAM initialization function calls to one helper function.

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Thu Nov 13 03:11:14 CET 2008


On 13.11.2008 02:41, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>   
>> we want to keep Geode targets consistent.
>>     
>
> Says who?
>   

I say so and my clone agrees. ;-)

> If a board is unique and we can't abstract in general code then
> mainboard/ code is fine.
>   

If the abstraction works for all the other boards, there is no reason to
have different codebases except to confuse people who want to port a new
similar board.

We have lots of places in v2 where people made some change to one
specific board, but the change would have applied to lots of boards.
Later on, nobody could recall offhand why the files were different. To
be honest, the amount of code duplication we have in v2 with little
arbitrary changes sprinkled all over the map is one of the biggest
reasons why I try to avoid v2 wherever possible. Diffing two boards will
usually give you lots of differences which are in no way related to the
board configuration/hardware.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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