Re: [PATCH] boot-monitor: add K2L and K2E boot monitor build support

[Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>]

On Thursday 15 May 2014 11:07 AM, Hao Zhang wrote:
> On 5/15/2014 10:54 AM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:41:52AM -0400, Hao Zhang wrote:

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>>>> Can you clarify if you really want all 3 devices installed all the time or 
>>>> do you really want a recipe that installs the boot monitor per device?  I 
>>>> know you don't currently have 3 machine types so maybe that is what is 
>>>> feeding your issue here, but my question is whether you need to have 
>>>> separate builds per device.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I want all the 3 boot monitors built and installed all the time in one
>>> recipe, since MCSDK 3.1 supports all the 3 Keystone II devices in the
>>> same release package. This applies to the U-boot (3 U-boot build for all
>>> the 3 Keystone II devices) and Linux kernel DTB.
>>
>> Linux kernel has support for board variations through DTBs, obviously.
>>
>> As of U-boot, in Sitara world we had to manage board variations by detecting 
>> the board at runtime. So, the same single binary would work on AM335x-EVM, 
>> AM335x-SK, BeagleBone White and BeagleBone Black.
>>
>> I would recommend you working with Tom Rini and doing it similarly, so you 
>> don't have to build 3 different binaries for 3 slightly different Keystone 
>> baords...
>>
>>
Three boars for same SOC is different than 3 different SOCs with their
own boards. We need to support different u-boot configs for that. And
upstream of the patches work is already in progress with Tom reviewing
the patches.

Regards,
Santosh