[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 02/10] Makefile: use "arm64" architecture for U-Boot image files

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Thu Nov 3 09:54:02 CET 2016


On 11/03/2016 02:36 AM, Andre Przywara wrote:
> At the moment we use the arch/arm directory for arm64 boards as well,
> so the Makefile will pick up the "arm" name for the architecture to use
> for tagging binaries in U-Boot image files.
> Differentiate between the two by looking at the CPU variable being defined
> to "armv8", and use the arm64 architecture name on creating the image
> file if that matches.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>

Why is this important? To know the state you have to be in for 
SPL->U-Boot transition later?

Why didn't anyone else stumble over this yet? Because nobody's using SPL?


Alex



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