Re: Moving AUX_CHANNELS, NUM_CHANNELS logic into platform hal

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at jifvik dot org>]

Gary Thomas wrote:
> > Instead of making the RedBoot networking option to do a "puts" with the
> > AUX_CHANNELS macro, it does now a "implements" command on AUX_CHANNELS,
> > that becomes a interface; then NUM_CHANNELS becomes an option that
> > augments COMM_CHANNELS with a "calculated" value. Is the same thing done
> > in the #defines in redboot.h and hal_if.c, but it seems more general and
> > less redundant.
> >
> >   
> I understand the mechanics - I still don't see how this changes 
> anything.  Do you have a platform that
> needs more "AUX" channels?

In fairness, this will probably want to be done at some point anyway. Think 
of a console back channel for JTAG debugging, for example.

Jifl
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