[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 10/11] Add u-boot-pad.bin target to the Makefile

Tom Rini
2012-09-19T18:19:45Z

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:11:08AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 09/19/2012 10:58 AM, Jos? Miguel Gon?alves wrote:
> > On 19-09-2012 17:10, Scott Wood wrote:
> >> On 09/19/2012 06:25:26 AM, Jos? Miguel Gon?alves wrote:
> >>> Samsung's S3C24XX SoCs need this in order to generate a binary image
> >>> with a padded SPL concatenated with U-Boot.
> >>
> >> I still think "pad" is a lousy name for this. It refers to a minor
> >> implementation detail of how the image was put together.
> >>
> >> If you don't like the suggestions in
> >> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2012-September/134191.html, how
> >> about
> >> "u-boot-with-spl.bin"?
> >
> > I used a suggestion made by Christian Riesch and accepted by Tom Rini.

Sorry for the churn, really, but..

> > I'm totally cool with any name that the U-Boot core maintainers would
> > like to use, though I would prefer a shorter name than
> > "u-boot-with-spl.bin" because I'm lazy and don't like to type too many
> > keys when I upgrade by tftp :-) Because of that I think I would prefer
> > "u-boot-all.bin". So, everybody agrees with that name?
>
> Hmmm. What does "all" mean? It's not that descriptive.
>
> On Tegra we currently have:
>
> u-boot-spl.bin - just SPL.
> u-boot.bin - just main U-Boot, I think.
> u-boot-dtb.bin - main U-Boot plus an appended DTB, I think.
> u-boot-dtb-tegra.bin - SPL+U-Boot+DTB.

As this, and other examples show, there's not really good generic names.
Go with u-boot.s3c24xx as the target and output, please. This is
consistent with the other targets and outputs where we throw something
that identifies the SoC/etc into the target/name.

--
Tom
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