From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Martin Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] ARM: vexpress: Initial RS1 memory map support Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 19:28:52 +0000 Message-ID: <20111202192852.GG2892@localhost.localdomain> References: <20111130153749.GE2045@localhost.localdomain> <1322673302.3180.25.camel@hornet.cambridge.arm.com> <20111130175410.GJ2045@localhost.localdomain> <20111130204805.GA5698@sirena.org.uk> <20111201111049.GB2915@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20111201121403.GC2026@localhost.localdomain> <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF174FDB01C6@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com> <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF174FDB0539@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF174FDB0539-C7FfzLzN0UxDw2glCA4ptUEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org Sender: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org To: Stephen Warren Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Pawel Moll , "devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org" , Mark Brown , Tixy , Marek Vasut , "linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.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