From: Detlev Zundel Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:50:01 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] u-boot wiki and arch-specific details In-Reply-To: <200804141334.57715.vapier@gentoo.org> (Mike Frysinger's message of "Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:34:57 -0400") References: <200804131926.41049.vapier@gentoo.org> <200804141334.57715.vapier@gentoo.org> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Mike, > On Monday 14 April 2008, Detlev Zundel wrote: >> > we maintain a Blackfin-specific u-boot wiki that goes into quite a bit of >> > detail, some of which is duplicated with the main u-boot wiki. how do >> > people feel about extending the u-boot wiki to allow for arch-specific >> > details ? >> >> What exactly do you have in mind? I surely don't see any principal >> problem here. >> >> It would certainly be valuable to get all U-Boot related info collected >> in a central place and have pointers wherever that make sense... > > from my reading of the wiki, it's more of a technical/command reference than a > guide. the wiki we maintain is geared to be more of a guide. i think the > two can be merged, i just dont want to convert things only to find out people > dont want to take it that direction. Just to be clear, we are discussing the DULG wiki, right? I agree that in the current state the documentation is more a reference but IIRC that wasn't really a conscious design decision. It simply turned out this way in the end. So I do not see any general problem in adding "guide style" sections in there. Maybe then most of the current documentation can then be shifted to a "commands reference" section. One problem I see though is how to correctly adapt such sections to the board specific nature of the DULG. Hopefully we can get away with mostly generic text passages and only a few ifdefs. It would be very helpful to know more concrete plans (outline!) to think further about these implications. Cheers Detlev -- Applied mathematicians do it by computer simulation. -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-40 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: dzu at denx.de