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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] SPL: Add YMODEM over UART load support
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 12:14:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F29811D.5080207@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120201102414.7E592200231@gemini.denx.de>

On 02/01/2012 04:24 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Tom Rini,
> 
> In message <1328047438-26294-1-git-send-email-trini@ti.com> you wrote:
>> From: Matt Porter <mporter@ti.com>
>>
>> Adds support for loading U-Boot from UART using YMODEM protocol.
>> If YMODEM support is enabled in SPL and the romcode indicates
>> that SPL loaded via UART then SPL will wait for start of a
>> YMODEM transfer via the console port.
> 
> Does it really make sense to add all kind of bloat to the SPL?
> 
> What originally has been designed to be minimal code now start to pull
> in all kinds of other crap,

What's the alternative -- another name and separate makefile
infrastructure for non-minimal initial loaders?

It's important that SPL be *able* to produce very small images when
needed, but its purpose has grown beyond that.

> that has never been designed to run before relocation.

At least some SPLs do relocation.

-Scott

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-01 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-31 22:03 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] SPL: Add YMODEM over UART load support Tom Rini
2012-01-31 22:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] SPL: Enable YMODEM support on BeagleBone and AM335x EVM Tom Rini
2012-02-01  6:40 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] SPL: Add YMODEM over UART load support Christian Riesch
2012-02-01 14:18   ` Tom Rini
2012-02-01 10:24 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-02-01 14:14   ` Tom Rini
2012-02-01 19:37     ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-02-01 19:39       ` Tom Rini
2012-02-01 19:51         ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-02-01 19:55           ` Tom Rini
2012-02-01 18:14   ` Scott Wood [this message]
2012-02-01 19:08     ` Tom Rini
2012-02-01 19:49       ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-02-01 19:57         ` Tom Rini
2012-02-01 19:46     ` Wolfgang Denk

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