From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Wood Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 12:14:53 -0600 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] SPL: Add YMODEM over UART load support In-Reply-To: <20120201102414.7E592200231@gemini.denx.de> References: <1328047438-26294-1-git-send-email-trini@ti.com> <20120201102414.7E592200231@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <4F29811D.5080207@freescale.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.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 >> >> 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