[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 10/11] Add u-boot-pad.bin target to the Makefile

[Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>]

Dear Scott Wood,

> On 09/21/2012 01:43:24 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Dear Scott Wood,
> > 
> > > The awkwardness with naming based on nand/onenand/sd is that we no
> > > longer have build infrastructure that is specific to the type of
> > 
> > boot
> > 
> > > device -- and IIRC with some of the newer SPL targets, the same
> > 
> > image
> > 
> > > works on multiple types of boot device.
> > > 
> > > Having u-boot.bin be the final output regardless of internal
> > > implementation details such as spl would avoid that problem, and be
> > > even nicer to automated testing than the nand/onenand/sd names.
> > 
> > On the other hand, I use u-boot.bin and expect it to always be the
> > raw linked
> > binary of u-boot .
> 
> What is U-Boot?  Is it the thing that SPL loads, or is it the entire
> package that pops out when I tell the U-Boot makefiles to build
> something?
> 
> Of course the raw binary of the thing that SPL loads would still be
> available under some new name.  Or come up with a new name for the
> final output, but I think the number of people that care about the
> final output is larger than the number of people that care about the
> raw binary of the thing that SPL loads.
> 
> As I said earlier, this is a situation where you can't please everyone,
> and I think it's better to have the current state of things be sane
> than to preserve one historical meaning of a particular target name
> rather than the other (originally there was no SPL and u-boot.bin was
> both the linker output and the final image to put into flash -- and
> this is still the case for many/most boards).

Leave u-boot.bin be, that's the u-boot binary ... the new name might be u-
boot.img (as in flash image), what do you say ?

> -Scott

Best regards,
Marek Vasut