Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] arm: dts: imx8mp: Add common u-boot dtsi

Fabio Estevam
2021-08-16T15:10:21Z

Hi Frieder,

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 11:18 AM Frieder Schrempf
<frieder.schrempf@kontron.de> wrote:

> > If you prepare a patch I would prefer to have separate names for the SPL image and the final concatenated image. So we don't overwrite the SPL image and can still use it on its own if needed.
> > But rather than choosing a new name for the complete image (as Heiko did above), I would like to rename the SPL image to something more meaningful like spl.bin first and then use flash.bin for the full image.
> > What do you think?

It seems we cannot rename the SPL to spl.bin as this would cause
breakage to i.MX8MM boards that do not use binman, such as
verdin-imx8mm_defconfig.

> And it would also be nice if we could share the common parts of the binman config between the different boards to avoid having this in each boards dtsi and to avoid having diverging configurations, where e. g. flash.bin refers to different kinds of images.

Agreed.

Let me try to send a proposal for imx8mm-evk first. If it gets
accepted, then I can try to make a common approach.

Regards,

Fabio Estevam