From: Vipin Kumar <vipin.kumar@st.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH resend 1/2] u-boot/spl: Add u-boot-spl.img to u-boot targets
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 17:25:19 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C1D927.60506@st.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50C1C8AB.6020302@denx.de>
On 12/7/2012 4:14 PM, Stefan Roese wrote:
> On 12/07/2012 10:47 AM, Vipin Kumar wrote:
>> On 12/6/2012 5:38 PM, Stefan Roese wrote:
>>> On 12/06/2012 10:29 AM, Vipin Kumar wrote:
>>>> Signed-off-by: Vipin Kumar<vipin.kumar@st.com>
>>>
>>> Is this new build target really needed? Please take a look at the
>>> recently added/renamed targets (e.g. u-boot-with-spl.bin or u-boot-img.bin).
>>>
>>
>> Hmm, this is an mkimage version of spl binary. This mkimage header is
>> detected by the BootROM in spear devices for loading and booting the SPL
>> binary
>
> Yes, I remember this from the SPEAr600. I introduced a new build target
> for this: u-boot.spr. Take a look at the commit:
>
Yes, I remember
> 94aebe6cc3111c7c9e3cd1311cc9793d01cc3ded
>
> Makefile: Add u-boot.spr build target (SPEAr)
>
> On x600 (SPEAr600) U-Boot is appended to U-Boot SPL. Both images are
> created using mkimage (crc etc), so that the ROM bootloader can check
> its integrity. Padding needs to be done to the SPL image (with
> mkimage header) and not the binary. Otherwise the resulting image
> which is loaded/copied by the ROM bootloader to SRAM doesn't fit.
> The resulting image containing both U-Boot images is called u-boot.spr.
>
>
> Or does your patch "only" introduce the mkimage SPL image version?
>
Yes, it introduces only mkimage SPL image version. This is necessary for
a few booting options where we absolutely require a different SPL binary
with an mkimage header
> Then please consolidate this with the u-boot.spr build target.
>
You mean u-boot.spr can use this u-boot-spl.img. Yes, I will do that in v2
> Thanks,
> Stefan
> .
>
Vipin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-07 11:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-06 9:29 [U-Boot] [PATCH resend 1/2] u-boot/spl: Add u-boot-spl.img to u-boot targets Vipin Kumar
2012-12-06 9:29 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH resend 2/2] arm/boards: Define a new config option CONFIG_BOOT_PARAMS_P Vipin Kumar
2012-12-06 9:44 ` Stefan Roese
2012-12-06 9:56 ` Vipin Kumar
2012-12-06 11:26 ` Stefan Roese
2012-12-07 9:40 ` Vipin Kumar
2012-12-07 14:47 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-12-17 8:15 ` Vipin Kumar
2012-12-06 12:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH resend 1/2] u-boot/spl: Add u-boot-spl.img to u-boot targets Stefan Roese
2012-12-07 9:47 ` Vipin Kumar
2012-12-07 10:44 ` Stefan Roese
2012-12-07 11:55 ` Vipin Kumar [this message]
2012-12-07 11:59 ` Stefan Roese
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