[coreboot] When should we retire newconfig?
Peter Stuge
peter at stuge.se
Mon Jan 11 23:41:00 CET 2010
Patrick Georgi wrote:
> 4. Implement it like in southbridge/amd/amd8111:
> 4a. Add a new file (I recommend
> "southbridge/$vendor/$device/bootblock.c") with a static void
> bootblock_southbridge_init(void) function that enables rom mapping
> 4b. Set BOOTBLOCK_SOUTHBRIDGE_INIT to point to the file
Please can some of these be renamed?
map_rom.c (or map_full_rom.c or possibly enable_rom_decode.c)
southbridge_map_rom() (or similar per filename above)
My reasoning is that the build system is a great place to describe
_when_ files are used, but code and filenames need only say _what_
they do - if there is one single convention.
I think 4b. should be made general. I don't know if I prefer always
including the file and having an empty function, or allowing the file
to be included only for southbridges where it actually exists. Empty
functions really suck; source code noise. Automagic build rules do
too; rename a file and get a runtime error instead of a buildtime
error. I have to go with the lesser evil; the empty function.
//Peter
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