[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/3] Distroboot support for DE0-nano-SoC board

[Westergreen, Dalon <dalon.westergreen@intel.com>]

On Sat, 2017-01-28 at 21:53 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 01/28/2017 09:47 PM, Frank Kunz wrote:
> > 
> > This adds common distribution boot environment variables for
> > DE0-nanos-SoC board. The current boot procedure is extended to run
> > the distribution boot as fallback.
> > The SOC ROM loader scans for the SPL in the special partition 0xa2
> > (partition mode)
> > if this is not found it scans the MMC card sector 0 (raw mode), for up to
> > four valid SPLs. When a partition table (MBR, GPT) is used with raw mode,
> > the first SPL must not be written to the MMC and the ROM loader uses the
> > second SPL.
> > 
> > Frank Kunz (3):
> > ? socfpga: Enable abort for DE-nano-SoC SPL uboot load from MMC
> > ? socfpga: Add distoboot support for DE0-nano-SoC
> > ? socfpga: Adapt environment storage for DE0-nano-SoC
> > 
> > ?include/configs/socfpga_de0_nano_soc.h | 32
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > ?1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> CCing Dalon, he sent a series
> [PATCH v7 0/7] arm: socfpga: update default u-boot environment
> 
> Can you two coordinate the efforts ? I think it'd make sense to wait for
> his series to reach v8 and then rebase on top of it. I would also like
> Dalon to do a v8 which just extracts the common env, so we can
> merge that first and then look into the more intrusive bits.
> 
Cool, i can submit a v8 which just moves the env to a common location.
I have reservations about the use use of raw mode while an MBR is
present. ?It is definitely not an intended use, although it does
work. If you like i can just merge the two patch sets into v8?

thanks,
dalon