From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ptmx.org (ptmx.org [178.63.28.110]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E6E8E00884 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 05:04:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.1.14.248] (83-64-248-68.inzersdorf.xdsl-line.inode.at [83.64.248.68]) by ptmx.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E25A825009; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:04:57 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <52DE7079.6080606@pseudoterminal.org> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:04:57 +0100 From: Carlos Rafael Giani User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fabio Estevam References: <52DCF67C.6030503@pseudoterminal.org> <52DD2EB0.5030208@freescale.com> <52DD3586.8090103@pseudoterminal.org> <52DD39FD.9090406@freescale.com> <52DD5F7C.2020109@pseudoterminal.org> In-Reply-To: Cc: "meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org" Subject: Re: About customizing the image_types_fsl class X-BeenThere: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Usage and development list for the meta-fsl-* layers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:05:01 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2014-01-20 20:48, Fabio Estevam wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Carlos Rafael Giani > 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 ?