[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 10/11] Add u-boot-ubl.bin target to the Makefile

Wolfgang Denk
2012-09-17T19:52:35Z

Dear Tom Rini,

In message <505763A5.1030101@ti.com> you wrote:
>
> Right. So I'm saying we need to set new expectations for everyone and
> some human helper symlinks to help. A new top-level out or images or
> something, with symlinks inside.

Why would we need that?

For the end user, any name is good enough, as long as it's clearly
documented which file to use, and what exactly to do with it. There
are so many different boot formatrequirements, that we canot expect to
come up with "good" names for all of these in any way that matches all
people's expectations because everything is completely
self-explanatory.

Make it simple, and handle it in the documentation.

> I think we're running into PowerPC vs ARM "fun". We've got 7 or so
> different "whack the image for this SoC for this medium" type things
> already.

I don't think it's an PPC versus ARM issue It's more an "good old
times" versus "brave new world" thing. Actually Shakespeare's verses
apply fully to many of teh recent SoC designs - be these PPC or ARM or
whatever based:

O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't.
?William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, ll. 203?6

Thinking about features, boot image formats, boot device selection and
other boot requirements of the ROM boot loaders of any recent SoC
indeed makes me wonder "How many goodly creatures are there here!"

PS: The "good" in this reference is to be understood in the same
sense as the "best" in the name of the MPC5200 BestComm DMA
controller.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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