[U-Boot] U-boot SPL direct Linux boot

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Simon Schwarz,

In message <BANLkTikVPozuHtS92uV_H2oCmBord2d96w at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> The problem with approach 3 is that you need to copy the ATAGS image.
> Is there a way to do this without a debugger? If yes it really could

You will need the ATAGs image only in U-Boot, so it should be
sufficient to use nand_write in U-Boot to write it to the location
where you later want to load it from.

> be an alternative. If ATAGS and Kernel can be reflashed you can update
> the kernel without a bootloader update (That's the main reason why i
> switched to 1).

There is no need to update the boot loader in this context.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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