[U-Boot] QE firmware/microcode handling

2012-09-20 Thread Gerlando Falauto
Hi everyone, following up Timur's patch on QE microcode: http://marc.info/?l=u-bootm=132197537730440w=2 I was wondering, would it make any sense to *embed* QE's firmware within u-boot image itself? After all, it should be some ~64KB worth of data, right? Not quite sure whether this has ever

Re: [U-Boot] QE firmware/microcode handling

2012-09-20 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Gerlando Falauto, In message 505ae6c3.5080...@keymile.com you wrote: following up Timur's patch on QE microcode: http://marc.info/?l=u-bootm=132197537730440w=2 I was wondering, would it make any sense to *embed* QE's firmware within u-boot image itself? It's a matter of

Re: [U-Boot] QE firmware/microcode handling

2012-09-20 Thread Timur Tabi
Gerlando Falauto wrote: Hi everyone, following up Timur's patch on QE microcode: http://marc.info/?l=u-bootm=132197537730440w=2 I was wondering, would it make any sense to *embed* QE's firmware within u-boot image itself? There are three problems: 1) A lot of U-Boot images are

Re: [U-Boot] QE firmware/microcode handling

2012-09-20 Thread Scott Wood
On 09/20/2012 10:22:21 AM, Timur Tabi wrote: Gerlando Falauto wrote: Hi everyone, following up Timur's patch on QE microcode: http://marc.info/?l=u-bootm=132197537730440w=2 I was wondering, would it make any sense to *embed* QE's firmware within u-boot image itself? There are three

Re: [U-Boot] QE firmware/microcode handling

2012-09-20 Thread Timur Tabi
Scott Wood wrote: The 512K limit is arbitrary and can be changed. It exists just to provide a stable start address on something that grows from the end of flash. True, but we haven't actually done changed it. Instead of allowing for a larger u-boot.bin, we have ALWAYS disabled features

Re: [U-Boot] QE firmware/microcode handling

2012-09-20 Thread McClintock Matthew-B29882
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Timur Tabi ti...@freescale.com wrote: Scott Wood wrote: The 512K limit is arbitrary and can be changed. It exists just to provide a stable start address on something that grows from the end of flash. True, but we haven't actually done changed it. Instead of