[U-Boot] [PATCH] bin_dep.sh Support

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Apr 6 10:24:39 CEST 2009


Dear Ronen Shitrit,

In message <309002C0DA137042828828FC53D7A9347E13537FE0 at IL-MB01.marvell.com> you wrote:
>
> I'm not sure we are on the same page here, the Kirkwood has an
> internal bootROM which can only boot an image if this image is
> wrapped by a specific header.

What a stupid (read: broken) hardware design.

There are tons of standards for image formats, and even more commonly
used formats I would not dare to call standard; but this processor
has to invent yet another one?

> The do_image should take the u-boot bin and wrap it with this header.
>
> How do u suggest we will support this header generation for the U-Boot?

Fix the hardware design?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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