[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] imximage: Add MX53 boot image support

[Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>]

On 12/28/2010 09:34 AM, Jason Liu wrote:

>> You have sure in Freescale a better visibility how to group together
>> this feature. Is the newer header typical for the MX53 or are there
>> other processors using the same structure ? John has already pointed out
>> that the MX28 is very similar, and, after reading the manual, it seems
>> to me it has the same header as the MX53. Can we distinguish with a
>> header version ?
> 
> In fact, the group should be the followings,
> 
> mx25/35/51
> mx53
> mx23/28,
> 
> Here the mx23/28 are much different with mx53 and mx25/35/51.
> mx23/28 is Sgmatel chips and buy-in by Freescale years before.

Ok, understood.

>> As I can see, the actual header is used at least by the MX35, not only
>> by the MX51. So I would prefer a way to group together processors with
>> the same header structure else to define a processor type.
> 
> OK,  I get it. You want to use version number to group it. Can we do it:
> 
> mx25/mx35/mx51 --version 1 ?
> mx53 --version 2?

Ok, fine. Version 1 should be the default value to be compatible with
actual boards. Please document the changes in doc/README.imximage, too.

Best regards,
Stefano Babic

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