Moving AUX_CHANNELS, NUM_CHANNELS logic into platform hal

[Jonathan Larmour]

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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