[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] common: imx: Implement generic u-boot.nand target

Tom Rini
2013-02-28T18:53:37Z

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On 02/28/2013 01:50 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Tom Rini,
>
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:33:52PM +0100, Beno??t Th??baudeau
>> wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 8:19:42 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>> Dear Beno??t Th??baudeau,
>>>>
>>>>> Dear Scott Wood,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 12:07:25 AM, Scott Wood
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> On 02/25/2013 05:03:30 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>>>> Dear Scott Wood,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So maybe we need a more general (but optional)
>>>>>>>> CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can you elaborate?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Same as CONFIG_SPL_TARGET, but not SPL-specific.
>>>>>> Basically a way for a board config file to add to
>>>>>> $(ALL-y).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So each one would set the appropriate
>>>>>>>> CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET for
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> whatever
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> needs to get built, and then something like
>>>>>>>> CONFIG_NAND_IMAGE could hold the image name that
>>>>>>>> should be linked to produce a standard
>>>>>>>> u-boot-nand.bin output.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yea, sounds reasonable. But why call it CONFIG_ , it
>>>>>>> can't be stored in the board.h files, it has to be
>>>>>>> somewhere in the Makefile hierarchy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why can't it go in the board.h files?
>>>>>
>>>>> We could do all that, but should we? As I said to Marek, I
>>>>> think that it's a big mistake to omit the SPL here. The
>>>>> only other solution to get a reliable boot would be the
>>>>> DBBT, but it's very hard to use in real life, away from a
>>>>> production line. The SPL is really easy to enable here, and
>>>>> it's only a matter of time before someone gets bitten by
>>>>> this lack of reliability, so why not just do things right?
>>>>> The boot time and footprint of an SPL would really be
>>>>> negligible, and it's not because other implementations omit
>>>>> both SPL and a valid DBBT that U-Boot should do the same.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not against SPL, but then we're starting to drift away
>>>> from the whole idea of generating u-boot-nand.bin or similar
>>>> image. Being able to generate u-boot- nand.bin or
>>>> u-boot-sd.bin etc ... on a per-CPU basis (since this is CPU
>>>> specific) is the ultimate goal here, whatever is embedded in
>>>> the image.
>>>
>>> OK, I didn't know that this was your goal here. If the contents
>>> of the image do not matter, then my u-boot-with-nand-spl.imx
>>> could be renamed into your u-boot-nand.bin with the appropriate
>>> FCB header, and CONFIG_SPL_TARGET could be changed to something
>>> more generic as Scott explained.
>>
>> I wonder how the rules start looking. In the end, some way to
>> say "Here is the image to write to NAND, called u-boot-nand.bin"
>> which will have whatever board needs (say spl/u-boot-spl.bin +
>> some header attached followed by pad, followed by u-boot.img).
>> And also allow for u-boot-nand.bin to be what someone else needs
>> (say a different header on u-boot-spl.bin), etc.
>
> They'd be CPU specific rules, so that depends on the CPU really.

Yes, they'd have to have a level of granularity (and
cross-sharability) to them. Which is why I wonder how it would all
look, since it needs to look on the clean side. I'm expressing a
desire to use these rules on non-Freescale parts right away, so long
as the infrastructure is done right.

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Tom
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