Re: [PATCH] recipe: u-boot: update recipe for more images

[Cyril Chemparathy <cyril@ti.com>]

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.

> Murali
> On 2/26/2013 2:31 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On 02/26/2013 02:20 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 01:42:31PM -0500, Murali Karicheri wrote:
>>>> Denys,
>>>>
>>>> I understand that this recipe is  not complete as u-boot_2013.01.bb
>>>> may be shared by other machines and this change is not applicable.
>>>> Do I need to add this to some other file? Please advise.
>>>>
>>>> Meanwhile for the release this should work as this is going into
>>>> mcsdk meta-ti repo. But to push this to meta-ti, the above change is
>>>> needed and hence need your input.
>>> Murali,
>>>
>>> I know Carlos has been working on adding SPL support to u-boot already:
>>>
>>> http://arago-project.org/pipermail/meta-arago/2013-February/000937.html
>>>
>>> Can you sync up with him and come up with a unified solution for both
>>> SPL and
>>> GPH images that works for everybody and I'd be happy to push it to
>>> meta-ti.
>>>
>>> Also, I'd like to hear Tom's opinion on this, as current U-Boot
>>> maintainer -
>>> if there is a better approach to this exists or planned in mainline.
>> I haven't seen the keystone patches yet, so I don't know if the GPH
>> image is "special" in terms of headers, but the build target
>> u-boot-with-spl.bin is the canonical build target for "put
>> u-boot-spl.bin and u-boot.bin together".
>>
>