From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from arroyo.ext.ti.com (arroyo.ext.ti.com [192.94.94.40]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 994CEE00312 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:25:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from dlelxv30.itg.ti.com ([172.17.2.17]) by arroyo.ext.ti.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id r1QLPOXs002239 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:25:24 -0600 Received: from DFLE73.ent.ti.com (dfle73.ent.ti.com [128.247.5.110]) by dlelxv30.itg.ti.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r1QLPOGM003421 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:25:24 -0600 Received: from dlelxv22.itg.ti.com (172.17.1.197) by dfle73.ent.ti.com (128.247.5.110) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.323.3; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:25:23 -0600 Received: from [172.24.52.55] (h52-55.vpn.ti.com [172.24.52.55]) by dlelxv22.itg.ti.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r1QLPN6H002412; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:25:23 -0600 Message-ID: <512D2865.9090806@ti.com> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:25:57 -0500 From: Tom Rini Organization: Texas Instruments User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Denys Dmytriyenko 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> <20130226212219.GP6725@denix.org> In-Reply-To: <20130226212219.GP6725@denix.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5 Cc: meta-ti@yoctoproject.org, Carlos Hernandez 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 21:25:25 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/26/2013 04:22 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote: > 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? Well, if it's just a header on the SPL binary we already have that as "MLO". -- Tom