From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nikolay Dimitrov Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:09:43 +0300 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH V3] ARM: mx6: Add support for Kosagi Novena In-Reply-To: References: <1411307086-12105-1-git-send-email-marex@denx.de> <54206945.3020300@mail.bg> <201409231147.55859.marex@denx.de> <54220567.2@mail.bg> Message-ID: <54229867.8020206@mail.bg> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Tim, On 09/24/2014 08:48 AM, Tim Harvey wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote: >> Hi Marek, >> >> On 09/23/2014 12:47 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: >>> >>> On Monday, September 22, 2014 at 08:24:05 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote: >>>> >>>> One more comment - isn't the file novena.o used also for the TPL, when >>>> building for SPL? >>> >>> >>> No, there's no TPL involved on MX6. >> >> Ahh, ok. So the whole thing fits in OCRAM then? I remember that on GW >> Ventana board the bootloader is executed in 2 parts - SPL in OCRAM and then >> TPL loaded & executed in DRAM (at least I call this part TPL, please excuse >> me if I'm wrong). >> >> Regards, >> Nikolay >> > > Nikolay, > > You are correct in that the Gateworks Ventana boards use SPL (to > configure MMDC/DDR3) and u-boot.img (which I suppose technically could > be called a Tertiary Program Loader or TPL). Marek's board here looks > to be doing the same thing. > > I believe TPL commonly refers to something else in the u-boot > community, but I'm not clear why. In the IMX6 world, the Primary Boot > Loader, or PBL is the IMX6 BOOT ROM firmware. > > I would love to clear up this terminology in order to properly > document it for my users. Thanks for explaining. I would also prefer to use the accepted terminology here, so any clues will be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Nikolay