[U-Boot] NAND SPL on imx6

[Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>]

Hi Tim,

On 27/03/2014 18:56, Tim Harvey wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de> wrote:
>> Hi Andy,
>>
>> On 07/03/2014 13:36, Andy Ng wrote:
>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>
>>> Has anyone tried to build NAND SPL support on imx6. Does it work?
>>>
>>
>> SPL support is not yet done for i.MXes - definetely, it is one of the
>> most important features we want to have in future.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Stefano Babic
> 
> Stefano,
> 
> I'm working on this for the Gateworks Ventana product family. While I
> have our boards currently booting from NAND SPL with various mixes of
> CPU and memory configuration I'm still working on some minor issues
> needed for my patches to be acceptable upstream based on prior
> attempts at IMX SPL and resulting discussions.
> 
> Just to make sure I'm on track here, these are the following patches I
> currently have the series I'm working on:
> 1. SPL: NAND: add support for mxs nand
> 2. MX6: add boot device structs and functions
> 3. MX6: provide basic SPL support (linker script, header with common
> SPL configs)
> 4. MX6: add structs and functions for mmdc iomux and dram config
> 5. MX6: add some macro foo to allow both MX6Q and MX6DL IOMUX
> 6. board support utilizing the above
> 
> Items 4 and 5 above are the ones that I'm still working on and I'm
> hoping to have patches to post within a few days to a week.  Does the
> above make sense to you?

I think we can better understand when you will post your patches. Feel
free to post patches as draft to explain your ideas, if you prefer.

Best regards,
Stefano


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