On 30/04/19 18:56, Jagan Teki wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 9:36 PM Stefano Babic <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Shyam, >> >> On 30/04/19 12:33, Shyam Saini wrote: >>> IMX6 platform has two stage boot loaders like SPL and >>> U-Boot proper. For each stage we need to burn the image >>> on to flash with respective offsets. >>> >>> This patch create a single image using binman, so that >>> user can get rid of burning different stage boot images. >>> >>> without this patch: >>> ------------------ >>> $ sudo dd if=SPL of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1k seek=1 >>> $ sudo dd if=u-boot-dtb.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1k seek=69 >>> >>> with this patch: >>> --------------- >>> $ sudo dd if=u-boot-imx6-with-spl.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1k seek=1 >>> >> >> I am quite confused. There is already a "u-boot-with-spl.imx" target, >> this works since a lot of time. Which is the reason to duplicate this >> feature or where is the difference ? > > At-least I did noticed this now, since it require explicit 'make > u-boot-with-spl.bin' I hardly unaware before this been available for > i.mx6. > > But, this binman feature more extensible than the Makefile oriented > and the same been adopting by many platforms. May be we can come-up > with common solution with binman, what do you think?
First, I would like to avoid to have the same feature implemented multiple times in different ways. If we can get the same solution for all platform, fine. But I guess i.MX is not the only one having such as target, socFPGA has the same solution. Regards, Stefano -- ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-53 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
