From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastien Bourdelin Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:54:18 -0500 Subject: [Buildroot] SoCkit support question? In-Reply-To: <20140221123040.4920ad0a@skate> References: <940580837.479152.1392839319094.JavaMail.root@mail> <530673E3.9030506@savoirfairelinux.com> <201402211124.03017.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> <20140221123040.4920ad0a@skate> Message-ID: <530776AA.7000903@savoirfairelinux.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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.