Dear Stefan Roese, > Hi Benoît, > > On 25.04.2013 14:49, Benoît Thébaudeau wrote: > >>>> Yes, I would prefer that. > >>>> > >>>> And being at it, why don't we add the offset to the resulting image as > >>>> well? This would make programming the images to the destination (SD, > >>>> NAND, MMC etc) easier. We would not have to care for the correct > >>>> offset then (which is more error prone). And it is necessary btw, to > >>>> have this offset added, when using the FSL kobs-ng tool to program > >>>> the image to NAND flash. > >>> > >>> This would interfere with MBR on SD cards, the offset is there for a > >>> reason ;-) > >> > >> Yes, makes sense. But only for SD cards. On other mediums (e.g. SPI NOR, > >> NAND) this padded image would be easier (less error prone) to handle. > > > > For NAND, we already have u-boot-with-nand-spl.imx. > > I'm thinking more about NAND on iMX6. Which doesn't support SPL (until > now). We could add a new build target for imx6 for NAND booting as well. > Not sure if this is better moved to a build target or to the imximage > generation tool?
Maybe we should focus on common u-boot.nand target too, which would produce correct result depending on the board configuration etc. > > For SPI NOR, something > > similar could be done, or this could be done by imximage. > > Yes. Perhaps its best to add this to imximage. > > Thanks, > Stefan Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
