Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] ARM: vexpress: Initial RS1 memory map support

[Dave Martin <dave.martin-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:41:12AM -0800, Stephen Warren wrote:
> Stephen Warren wrote at Thursday, December 01, 2011 9:20 AM:
> > Dave Martin wrote at Thursday, December 01, 2011 5:14 AM:
> > > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 11:10:50AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 04:38:26PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > Oh, dear.  Any pointers to the discussions on the u-boot side?
> > > >
> > > > > Certainly.  Many different threads actually.  Here's a few:
> > > >
> > > > OK, thanks - I see Stephen just followed up and Wolfgang seems
> > > > moderately happy so hopefully there will be some progress.  It also
> > > > occurs to me that there's at least Qi also using uImages, hopefully
> > > > other bootloaders are going to be easier to deal with (or already cope).
> > >
> > > If Stephen's patches are heading for merge, that's great.
> > >
> > > If this feature remains blocked though, could we support Wolfgang's
> > > preference for start-of-RAM-relative load and entry address?
> > 
> > It looks like my change is progressing to being checked in:
> > 
> > http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-December/111865.html
> 
> For the record, the changes are now in U-Boot master:
> 
> d510859 image: Don't detect XIP images as overlapping.
> b9b50e8 image: Implement IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD
> 
> I should also note that Marek Vasut posted some patches to implement a
> bootz command in U-Boot. This turned out to be much less invasive than
> I originally thought, so once those patches are finalized, uImage might
> be irrelevant except for initrds (U-Boot already accepts a raw FDT
> without uImage wrapping for bootm and hence bootz).
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot-0aAXYlwwYIKGBzrmiIFOJg@public.gmane.org/msg69287.html

Great, thanks for the alert.

Cheers
---Dave