[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] mx6ul_14x14_evk: Remove CONFIG_SPL_FAT_SUPPORT

[Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>]

On 09/09/2015 14:26, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Hi Peng and Stefano,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de> wrote:
> 
>>>> #define CONFIG_SPL_LIBCOMMON_SUPPORT
>>>> #define CONFIG_SPL_MMC_SUPPORT
>>>> -#define CONFIG_SPL_FAT_SUPPORT
>>>
>>> Can we keep this? Without this, we need to burn u-boot.img into sdcard, but
>>> i prefer to load u-boot.img from the fat partition.
>>
>> Well, how U-Boot is stored on the SD-Card is a decision that you take
>> based on the balance safety against comfortably.
>> Both are ok on my side. If we put u-boot.img in raw SD at a fixed
>> address, it is very uncommon that a user destroy accessing it. On the
>> other side, putting it into a FAT partition makes easier to update for
>> everybody - just copying it into a disk.
>> The issue reported by Fabio is like a corrupted SD-Card - the SD-Card
>> does not contain the correct bootloader and it is ok if it does not boot
>> or hangs. Both ways have advantages and disadvantages.
> 
> I am trying to get this more standard across Freescale boards.
> 
> Like it was pointed out here:
> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-August/222061.html
> 
> I think it can be confusing for the end user if each FSL board has a
> different way for booting u-boot.img, so that's why I chose the common
> approach here.
> 

Most of us agree to unify i.MX boards using storing the bootloader as
raw data.

Applied to u-boot-imx, thanks !

Best regards,
Stefano Babic


-- 
=====================================================================
DENX Software Engineering GmbH,      Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk
HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany
Phone: +49-8142-66989-53 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: sbabic at denx.de
=====================================================================