RFC: Remove BSP_Configuration

[Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>]

Eric Norum wrote:
> Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 
> On Oct 20, 2005, at 10:06 AM, gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov 
> <mailto:gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> 
>>
>> "Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp.com <mailto:joel at OARcorp.com>>" 
>> <joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com <mailto:joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com>> writes:
>>
>>> gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov <mailto:gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp.com <mailto:joel at OARcorp.com>>" 
>>>> <joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com <mailto:joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com>> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> My proposal would be to:
>>>>>
>>>>> (1) Eliminate BSP_Configuration entirely.  Do not copy
>>>>>      the generated Configuration to BSP_Configuration and
>>>>>      modified Cofniguration as required in the BSP.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We have found BSP_Configuration to be useful at runtime, having a
>>>> well-defined struct to pull footprint info out of is nicer than defining
>>>> symbols in the linker script.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You would still have the structure -- it would just be called 
>>> Configuration.
> 
> 
> I agree with the proposal but in the interest of namespace pollution 
> reduction could the name be changed to rtemsConfiguration or something 
> like that?   

I don't see why not.  Pretty much everything that looks in a 
configuration table will change anyway in a minor way to really 
implement this correctly.

I expect this will shrink executables a bit but I can't guess how much.

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> 
> Eric Norum <norume at aps.anl.gov <mailto:norume at aps.anl.gov>>
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