On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 16:58, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
As for CF. I guess I have only seen LANL doing that, and it seems a little unsatisfactory. There is no reason why beoboot needs that much space for example.
I bet there are a lot of people using CF in the embedded world, they can't use Etherboot to fetch the kernel from the net as you do. We should not only think about HPC applications. People in embedded market are in different enviroment and have different cost structure than you.
I do think removing the name of the device is a wrong direction.
It is wrong to remove the unused name of the chip?
It is not wrong to remove 'unused' name if it is actually 'unused'. It is wrong to ignore other people's need and refuse to consider alternatives. In my point of view, removing the .name is what those CS people called "premature optimization".
I think the most important issue is you tried to use ldscript magic to layout the rom image. But it is still somehow 'hardcoded'. If it is really that magical, people should have no problem changing the rom layout by editing their target/Config.lb. and put the c_payload wherever they want.
Ollie