[U-Boot] Non-OMAP/DaVinci ARM SPL? (Was: Re: [PATCH V9 2/4] omap-common: Add NAND SPL linux booting)

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Igor Grinberg <grinberg at compulab.co.il> wrote:
> On 12/07/11 18:00, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> The function you write are in omap-common/spl_nand.c, but they are not
>>> specific for OMAP, and any architecture can profit from your work. What
>>> about to move common functions away from TI related directory ? I do not
>>> know which is the best place, maybe a new directory under the root as
>>> spllib ?
>>
>> There's a lot of thinking and reworking we should do for the SPL code
>> we have today under arch/arm, both in terms of sharing between davinci
>> and OMAP(ish) and non-TI parts.  My question is, for non-TI stuff, is
>> anyone using or about to start using this framework?
>
> I think NVIDIA Tegra can benefit from this.
> Added Simon Glass to Cc.

The Tegra boot rom can load the whole U-Boot in from various media
types so we haven't had to use SPL to date. I have been trying out a
way of moving a good chunk of the code (that is useful to devs but not
used in a normal boot) into the back end of the image to load later.
But this is just a link trick and not really related to SPL (although
I think it might have application if we want to generalise SPL).

Samsung and Freescale use it I think. I agree that SPL code should be
as generic as possible.

Regards,
Simon

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> Regards,
> Igor.