[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] SPL: Add YMODEM over UART load support

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Tom Rini,
>
> In message <1328047438-26294-1-git-send-email-trini at ti.com> you wrote:
>> From: Matt Porter <mporter at ti.com>
>>
>> Adds support for loading U-Boot from UART using YMODEM protocol.
>> If YMODEM support is enabled in SPL and the romcode indicates
>> that SPL loaded via UART then SPL will wait for start of a
>> YMODEM transfer via the console port.
>
> Does it really make sense to add all kind of bloat to the SPL?
>
> What originally has been designed to be minimal code now start to pull
> in all kinds of other crap, that has never been designed to run before
> relocation.

Boards that don't need it can opt out.  We use this internally for
automated testing of U-Boot on hardware (and I'm setting up the same
thing locally).

-- 
Tom