[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: mx6: Enable MMC FS boot support

Tom Rini
2016-04-28T18:06:35Z

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 03:40:45PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 04/28/2016 03:36 PM, Stefano Babic wrote:
> > Hi Marek,
> >
> > On 28/04/2016 13:03, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >> On 04/28/2016 07:59 AM, Stefano Babic wrote:
> >>> Hi Marek,
> >>>
> >>> On 28/04/2016 04:24, Peng Fan wrote:
> >>>> Hi Marek,
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 01:06:07AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>>>> Enable support for booting U-Boot image from filesystem instead of some
> >>>>> random offset on the SD card. This makes the board usable by putting the
> >>>>> u-boot.img to first partition of the SD card and writing the SPL this way:
> >>>>> $ dd if=u-boot-with-spl.imx of=/dev/sdX seek=2 bs=512
> >>>>
> >>>> I once want to enable this for i.MX6UL, but was rejected.
> >>>> Anyway I prefer load u-boot.img from filesystem.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Right - we have this discussion some times ago. The agreement we reach
> >>> was to maintain SPL loading only from a raw image.
> >>>
> >>> https://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot at lists.denx.de/msg185432.html
> >>
> >> The feeling I get from the discussion you linked above and the
> >> discussion here is that because user can be an idiot and delete
> >> files at random, we should move back to the 80s
> >
> > No U-Boot in the 80s.
> >
> >> and store files
> >> like on the casette tapes, at random offset. User can also delete
> >> kernel image and yet, we store it on the filesystem. Maybe we should
> >> also store the kernel image at another raw offset ... and hey, maybe
> >> we should ditch filesystem altogether, just tar everything up and
> >> store it at yet another offset, since user might delete files at
> >> random, just imaging he'd delete libc ...
> >
> > wandboard has a market quite similar to the Raspi and yes, there is a
> > lot of inexperienced people using it.
>
> Shall I prepare a patch which places kernel to yet another ad-hoc
> location on the SD card then and tweak bootargs to use cramfs then?

Users bricking their devices is a real problem. I don't object to
adding support for many ways of doing things (we have it on TI boards
today) enabled, but saying there's no use case nor reason to do non-FS
installs is also missing the mark.

--
Tom
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