[U-Boot-Custodians] SPL / TPL

[Kever Yang]

Add Philipp,
Hi Philipp,

     Did you remember the discussion thread about the order of SPL/TPL?


Thanks,
- Kever
On 2019/10/9 下午4:42, Bin Meng wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 3:13 PM Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
>> Dear Bin Meng,
>>
>> In message <CAEUhbmXWa1nTa4ddbubBi6sZ8a1LrLgeTSCt2O9c+oKhqpP2Ng at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>> It looks to me that we never get in agreement as we have the document
>>> README.TPL describes one boot flow and some other platforms implement
>>> another way.
>> I'm sorry, but such a statement simply makes no sense.  The SPL
>> (2nd) will always preceede the TPL (3rd) in all systems.
>>
> What you described here is what Masahiro said when TPL was first
> introduced to U-Boot:
>
> "SPL is a short of Secondary Program Loader, and TPL was Tertiary
> Program Loader."
>
> This was indicated by README.TPL and the presentation that Kever mentioned.
>
>> The actual content and functionality may be different, but this
>> is a totally different topic, and should not be attached to the
>> names.
>>
> I also thought TPL is 3rd program loader, but some platforms (as
> pointed out in this email thread) use TPL as the 1st stage program
> loader proceeding SPL, and in fact changed its meaning to Tiny Program
> Loader.
>
> Indeed people are not in agreement. That's why I sent this email
> asking for some clarification :)
>
> Apparently there are 2 distinct implementation about TPL in U-Boot
> today. So what should we do next?
>
> Regards,
> Bin
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