[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 6/6] arm: mx5: Add support for DENX M53EVK

Stefan Roese
2013-04-25T13:46:52Z

Hi Beno?t,

On 25.04.2013 14:49, Beno?t Th?baudeau wrote:
>>>> Yes, I would prefer that.
>>>>
>>>> And being at it, why don't we add the offset to the resulting image as
>>>> well? This would make programming the images to the destination (SD,
>>>> NAND, MMC etc) easier. We would not have to care for the correct offset
>>>> then (which is more error prone). And it is necessary btw, to have this
>>>> offset added, when using the FSL kobs-ng tool to program the image to
>>>> NAND flash.
>>>
>>> This would interfere with MBR on SD cards, the offset is there for a reason
>>> ;-)
>>
>> Yes, makes sense. But only for SD cards. On other mediums (e.g. SPI NOR,
>> NAND) this padded image would be easier (less error prone) to handle.
>
> For NAND, we already have u-boot-with-nand-spl.imx.

I'm thinking more about NAND on iMX6. Which doesn't support SPL (until
now). We could add a new build target for imx6 for NAND booting as well.
Not sure if this is better moved to a build target or to the imximage
generation tool?

> For SPI NOR, something
> similar could be done, or this could be done by imximage.

Yes. Perhaps its best to add this to imximage.

Thanks,
Stefan