[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 00/10] Add Marvell Dove and SolidRun CuBox

[Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@googlemail.com>]

On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 13:38 -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 02:46:57PM -0800, Prafulla Wadaskar wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Luka Perkov [mailto:luka at openwrt.org]
> > > Sent: 11 February 2013 02:08
> > > To: Sebastian Hesselbarth
> > > Cc: Prafulla Wadaskar; u-boot at lists.denx.de; Rabeeh Khoury; Albert
> > > Aribaud; Andy Fleming; Joe Hershberger; Daniel Stodden
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] Add Marvell Dove and SolidRun CuBox
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:43:00AM +0100, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> > > > u-boot has kwboot for kirkwood since ages, but the general
> > > functionality
> > > > to boot through UART boot mode also applies to above SoCs. I took
> > > > kwbimage to reflect that kwboot should be used for booting this
> > > image.
> > > > IMHO introducing new abbreviated image names like dvbimage will just
> > > > distract people from using the correct tool to boot it. kwboot will
> > > not
> > > > be renamed, will it?
> > > 
> > > I don't mind if we rename kwboot to lets say mvebu-boot. That name
> > > would
> > > fit for kirkwood, dove and armada SoCs in the future...
> > 
> > That's good idea.
> > I vote for renaming kwboot as "mvboot", that will inline with predefined file naming strategy.
> 
> Is kwboot practically extensible to mmp and pxa?

If those have a similar mechanism, and it happens to be based on Xmodem,
then there's probably sharable ground.

The boot message protocol on Marvell chips is a fairly ad-hoc construct.

Daniel