From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from vms173011pub.verizon.net (vms173011pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.11]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 641E2E00312 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:22:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from gandalf.denix.org ([unknown] [108.45.150.102]) by vms173011.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0MIU00DV0JD71992@vms173011.mailsrvcs.net> for meta-ti@yoctoproject.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:22:31 -0600 (CST) Received: by gandalf.denix.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CA82E20092; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:22:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:22:19 -0500 From: Denys Dmytriyenko To: Carlos Hernandez Message-id: <20130226212219.GP6725@denix.org> References: <1361903920-16650-1-git-send-email-m-karicheri2@ti.com> <512D0217.7090100@ti.com> <20130226192023.GL6725@denix.org> <512D0D9F.8050705@ti.com> <512D12D0.7090804@ti.com> <512D1714.6040805@ti.com> <512D1A7F.7030806@ti.com> <512D1D2B.7080909@ti.com> MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: <512D1D2B.7080909@ti.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Tom Rini , meta-ti@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] recipe: u-boot: update recipe for more images X-BeenThere: meta-ti@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Usage and development list for the meta-ti layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:22:31 -0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 03:38:03PM -0500, Carlos Hernandez wrote: > On 02/26/2013 03:26 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > >On 02/26/2013 03:12 PM, Cyril Chemparathy wrote: > >>On 02/26/2013 02:53 PM, Murali Karicheri wrote: > >>>+ Cyril, > >>> > >>>Cyril had worked on adding GPH format for u-boot. Want to hear from him > >>>why not used the u-boot-with-spl.bin build target. > >>> > >>Because u-boot-with-spl.bin does not wrap the spl image with a header > >>that the rom bootloader understands. > >What is the header we need? I assume it's not compatible with our > >previous headers. And if it's just a convenience for programming the > >flash, maybe we just stick with two files, to avoid further headaches > >upstream? It's a general rule that concatenating files would make > >programming easier, but it's a small savings on either end, yes? This > >would also make the packaging easier since it would just be > >SPL_IMAGE_FILE (or whatever) set to u-boot-spl.gph and so forth. Thanks! > > > I believe this is what the patch I submitted (to meta-arago) few > days ago do. > You need to define SPL_UART_BINARY in your recipe to enable the > extra do_install and do_deploy functionality. Correct, but it doesn't support GPH yet, only SPL, AFAIK. Can you look into extending it in such a way it can be used for any/all of the use cases easily? -- Denys