From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert ARIBAUD Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 23:19:23 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] spl: MMC U-Boot image load from raw partition In-Reply-To: <1415484896-28928-1-git-send-email-contact@paulk.fr> References: <1415484896-28928-1-git-send-email-contact@paulk.fr> Message-ID: <20141108231923.243bf07a@lilith> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hello Paul, On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 23:14:54 +0100, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: > This is a first attempt at adding support for U-Boot image load from raw > partitions. It does not support OS boot as I cannot test it on my current > setup. > > This is going to be useful for the Optimus Black port (please do not consider > this as dead code because no board is using it right now, there will be one > soon)! Well... Why don't you just post these two patches a little later, as part of the upcoming series which will add support for the Optimus Black? > On the Optimus Black, the second stage bootloader (U-Boot in our case) > is stored on the second partition of the internal EMMC. This patch allows > reading from that partition without the need of providing the U-Boot config > with a sector address, but with the partition address. > > It makes sense as there is already code to read partition tables, so it would > be a shame to hardcode the sector address while it can be obtained dynamically. > > _______________________________________________ > U-Boot mailing list > U-Boot at lists.denx.de > http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot Amicalement, -- Albert.