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

José Miguel Gonçalves
2012-09-21T16:26:49Z

On 21-09-2012 17:13, Tom Rini wrote:
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> On 09/21/12 08:52, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> Dear Jos? Miguel Gon?alves,
>>
>> In message <505C21BB.7000209@inov.pt> you wrote:
>>>> It is very important to me that we do NOT include any
>>>> architectures, SoCs, or board specifc parts in the names
>>>> because this will cause major PITA for all kind of automatic
>>>> test suites etc.
>>> To me this seems also a cleaner solution, as any end user, that
>>> simply takes the u-boot sources and performs a make, would
>>> easily find the appropriate file to burn on his boot media.
>>>
>>> But in that case, as the NAND image format (for instance) is
>>> architecture and/or SoC dependant, what do you suggest is to add
>>> conditionals in the Makefile that adequate the 'u-boot-nand.bin'
>>> file to the target SoC?
>> SoC specific make rules can probably be added to the respective SoC
>> specific makefiles, thus still avoiding to clutter the top level
>> Makefile with lots of conditionals.
> Ideally? Yes, Possible today? Not sure. I have a hazy recollection
> that it wasn't so easy when I tried adding some build rules to one of
> the config.mk files. When I post SPI SPL for am335x support I'll try
> again since for that I need to add a rule to generate a byte-swapped
> MLO file. If that can go somewhere other than spl/Makefile that would
> be nice (but needs to be visible to a number of TI SoCs is an issue).
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So what is your suggestion for my patch?
Can I push it with a new "u-boot-with-spl.bin" target and you'll handle the
unification of all NAND targets later?

Best regards,
Jos? Gon?alves