From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rini Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:53:46 -0700 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/6] SPL: Port SPL framework to powerpc In-Reply-To: <1345709565-28862-1-git-send-email-sr@denx.de> References: <1345709565-28862-1-git-send-email-sr@denx.de> Message-ID: <5036A66A.5010904@ti.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 08/23/2012 01:12 AM, Stefan Roese wrote: > This patchset ports the SPL framework to powerpc. Its based on the > SPL generalization lately done by Tom Rini. The patches can be applied > on top of his 3rd version located here: > > http://github.com/trini/u-boot WIP/spl-improvements > > Additionally, a new MPC5200 board port is included, the a3m071 board > port. This board port uses this SPL framework mainly to speed up > booting into the OS (Linux of course). Detection of Linux vs. U-Boot > booting is done here by checking the environment variable "boot_os". > If "boot_os" is set to "yes", then the OS (Linux) is booted. Otherwise > the "real" U-Boot is booted. For this env checking in the SPL, a small > restructuring of the env code has been done. > > Comments welcome! My first comment is, yay! In general, things look good, and I've just got a few questions I've replied to the respective patch with. -- Tom