[coreboot] mainboard.c: init() still being called?

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Mon Aug 16 18:07:11 CEST 2010


>> > It makes sense to use values in the device tree to parameterize
>> > device code for specific mainboards, but I don't see the point of
>> > parameterizing mainboard-specific code from the device tree.
>>
>> It's no secret that I'd like coreboot to have zero mainboard-specific
>> code, and allow parameters to be used to completely describe a board.
>
> In that case, are you sure you want to ack it?  Right now there are very few
> boards that have mainboard init functions ( < 20).  I think now is the time
> to migrate away from it if it's a bad idea.
I just checked, and the number of boards is 31 counting all the ones
that use enable_dev for their mainboards.

Thanks,
Myles




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