confused about "__PBL__" macro and whether it's actually used

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:

> On 07:41 Tue 04 Dec     , Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   perusing arch/arm/mach-omap/omap3_generic.c and i noticed that the
> > initcall "omap3_gpio_init" is apparently invoked by the TI X-loader,
> > even though it *appears* to be protected by the macro:
> >
> > #ifndef __PBL__
> > static int omap3_gpio_init(void)
> > {
> > ... snip ...
> > }
> > coredevice_initcall(omap3_gpio_init);
> > #endif
> >
> >   i assume __PBL__ is meant to refer to the "primary bootloader" --
> > that would be X-loader -- which suggests that that initcall shouldn't
> > be invoked by the X-loader as long as that macro is being defined
> > correctly.
> >
> >   am i misunderstanding something here?  i'm going to check the
> > makefiles to see if i'm just confused.

> no this means pre-bootloader aso this is in zbarebox.bin case only
>
> for the code that contain the decompressor

  ah, got it, thanks.

rday

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