[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/6] SPL: Port SPL framework to powerpc

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Thu Aug 23 23:53:46 CEST 2012


On 08/23/2012 01:12 AM, Stefan Roese wrote:
> This patchset ports the SPL framework to powerpc. Its based on the
> SPL generalization lately done by Tom Rini. The patches can be applied
> on top of his 3rd version located here:
> 
> http://github.com/trini/u-boot WIP/spl-improvements
> 
> Additionally, a new MPC5200 board port is included, the a3m071 board
> port. This board port uses this SPL framework mainly to speed up
> booting into the OS (Linux of course). Detection of Linux vs. U-Boot
> booting is done here by checking the environment variable "boot_os".
> If "boot_os" is set to "yes", then the OS (Linux) is booted. Otherwise
> the "real" U-Boot is booted. For this env checking in the SPL, a small
> restructuring of the env code has been done.
> 
> Comments welcome!

My first comment is, yay!  In general, things look good, and I've just
got a few questions I've replied to the respective patch with.

-- 
Tom


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