From: Carlos Rafael Giani <dv@pseudoterminal.org>
To: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Cc: "meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org" <meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: About customizing the image_types_fsl class
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:04:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52DE7079.6080606@pseudoterminal.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOMZO5BMDV-u1E40AZBpWLn-MHwKu9Vt59+3RnZCj4PACbj1KQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 2014-01-20 20:48, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Carlos Rafael Giani
> <dv@pseudoterminal.org> wrote:
>> On 2014-01-20 16:00, Daiane Angolini wrote:
>>>
>>> As I know it's supposed to be released today/tomorrow
>>>
>> Just had a discussion with developers working on Cubox-I support.
>> They tried
>> to push MXC SPL support for the CuBox-i upstream, didn't work out so
>> far.
> Have they sent their patch to the U-boot list? If so, care to point me
> where these patches are in the list?
>
> I do not recall seeing any patches from them in the U-boot mailing list.
The patches were made by Jon Nettleton. According to him, this
discussion happened offline. Hence no mailing list patches.
>
>> Otavio suggested to use mainline without SPL for now, but I am skeptical
>> about it. SPL is a very nice feature, it allows me to use the exact same
>> installation for several Cubox-i machines.
>>
>> The way I see it, there are two options for me:
>> 1) Use the u-boot fork with MXC SPL support for now, until mainline
>> supports
>> MXC SPL. Then immediately switch to mainline by applying a patch to
>> meta-fsl-arm-extra.
>> 2) Use mainline without SPL, and live with the fact that I need a
>> build for
>> every single CuBox-i machine.
> Or even better:
>
> 3) Work on upstreaming mx6 spl support into mainline U-boot
>
He tried just that, and ran into a wall. When he has time, he may be
able to drop in and explain what happened in his own words.
Also, we just discovered that barebox has CuBox-i and HummingBoard
support already. Its design seems to be much nicer and easier to manage.
Has barebox ever been considered a u-boot alternative for meta-fsl-arm ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-21 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-20 10:12 About customizing the image_types_fsl class Carlos Rafael Giani
2014-01-20 14:12 ` Daiane Angolini
2014-01-20 14:41 ` Carlos Rafael Giani
2014-01-20 15:00 ` Daiane Angolini
2014-01-20 17:40 ` Carlos Rafael Giani
2014-01-20 19:48 ` Fabio Estevam
2014-01-21 13:04 ` Carlos Rafael Giani [this message]
2014-01-21 13:22 ` Fabio Estevam
2014-01-21 13:28 ` Daiane.Angolini
2014-01-20 19:54 ` John Weber
2014-01-20 20:20 ` Otavio Salvador
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