[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 6/7] arm: add Faraday firmware image utility

Albert ARIBAUD
2013-06-10T18:38:20Z

Hi Kuo-Jung,

On Tue, 7 May 2013 14:25:12 +0800, Kuo-Jung Su <dantesu@gmail.com>
wrote:

> From: Kuo-Jung Su <dantesu@faraday-tech.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Kuo-Jung Su <dantesu@faraday-tech.com>
> CC: Albert Aribaud <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
> ---
> Changes for v4:
> - Coding Style cleanup.
> - Break up from [arm: add Faraday A36x SoC platform support]
>
> Changes for v3:
> - Coding Style cleanup.
> - Always insert a blank line between declarations and code.
>
> Changes for v2:
> - Coding Style cleanup.
>
> arch/arm/cpu/faraday/Makefile | 2 +-
> arch/arm/cpu/faraday/cmd_bootfa.c | 132 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm/cpu/faraday/fwimage.h | 38 +++++++++++
> arch/arm/cpu/faraday/fwimage2.h | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds | 11 ++++
> 5 files changed, 252 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/cpu/faraday/cmd_bootfa.c
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/cpu/faraday/fwimage.h
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/cpu/faraday/fwimage2.h

What is the rationale behind a specific boot command? What prevents
using the existing tools and formats?

Amicalement,
--
Albert.