[Buildroot] SoCkit support question?

[Sebastien Bourdelin <sebastien.bourdelin@savoirfairelinux.com>]

Hi Thomas,

On 02/21/2014 06:30 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Charles Manning,
>
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:24:02 +1300, Charles Manning wrote:
>
>> I have just sent my second patch for this to the u-boot list. They didn't like 
>> my last one because it was standalone and not integrated into mkimage. They 
>> might come back with some formatting stuff, but I think it will be mainlined 
>> in a day or two.
>>
>> Once that is in place, it can be patched into the u-boot-socfpga tree and the 
>> preloader is built and signed as part of a regular u-boot build. It just 
>> needs a build-root copy step to copy it into output/images. I will be doing 
>> that today.
> In the mean time (until your patch gets accepted, and a new U-Boot
> release is made with it), it is still possible to support the SoCkit by
> having U-Boot build an unsigned image, and let the user manually use
> the Altera provided mkpimage tool to sign it. It just needs to be
> documented in board/arrow/sockit/readme.txt, with all the other details
> on how to actually set up the board to use the bootloader and kernel
> images produced by Buildroot.
>
> Don't wait for perfection. Do something simple that works now, and
> improve on top of it progressively :)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas

I will send you patches for the unsigned version with documentation today.

Best regards,

Sebastien.