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From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
To: Jose Luis Zabalza <jlz.3008@gmail.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Novice questions
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 09:11:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100702071129.GU8767@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTil-pLayTps_sfU1fURx3MrgFTvnaABgP5QSfn9h@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 05:03:27AM +0200, Jose Luis Zabalza wrote:
> I'm trying write some code into barebox and  I have seen things that
> caught my attention.
>
> 1.- Modules on barebox. lsmod, insmod commands, EXPORT_SYMBOL() macro.
> What is the purpouse of these ? Modules have no means less memory
> footprint ;-??

There are people out there who want to be able to add functionality
later. Think about a product which was delivered in large quantities;
then you decide that you need a new functionality in the bootloader.
Modules make a nice interface for doing so.

rsc
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-02  7:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-02  3:03 Jose Luis Zabalza
2010-07-02  7:11 ` Robert Schwebel [this message]
2010-07-02  7:16 ` Sascha Hauer

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