[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] 85xx: add ability to upload QE firmware
Timur Tabi
timur at freescale.com
Mon Dec 17 20:48:47 CET 2007
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Think about the situation that someone whats to use DHCP to boot his
> board, which will usually result in the TFTP download of exactly
> *one* image from a TFTP server. That image should then contain the
> Linux kernel, the dtb, the QE firmware image, eventually a ramdisk,
> and maybe even more... That's what the new image format is about.
Ok, I can appreciate that, but how is my QE firmware blob any different from any
other generic binary that this new image format must support? And since this
new format is still a long way from being implemented, I don't see why it should
delay adding support for QE firmware.
The "qe fw" command requires an address, and it takes care of the rest. As long
as this new image format can identify the QE firmware within it and pass the
address of the blob to the "qe fw" command, I don't really care about the rest.
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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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