[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2 V2] arm926: Flush the data cache before disabling it.

Christian Riesch christian.riesch at omicron.at
Thu Jan 12 06:56:01 CET 2012


On Wednesday, January 11, 2012, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wednesday, January 11, 2012, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> >> On Wed Jan 11, 2012 at 04:01:31PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> >> > >   More so, given the fact that we don't have any control over
>> >> > >   rbl -- so if rbl changes it's layout for any subsequent board,
>> >> > >   we'd have to add that as well to the nand driver, and both in
>> >> > >   u-boot as well as the kernel.
>> >> > >
>> >> > >   I guess the cleanest solution would have been for the rbl to
have
>> >> > >   used the same layout as the one used by u-boot and linux.
>> >> >
>> >> > Yep, why not do that then?
>> >> >
>> >>   Because rbl is a proprietary bootloader from TI.
>> >
>> > Don't we actually have replacement bootloader in uboot already ? You
>>
>> don't need
>>
>> > xloader with uboot anymore I think.
>>
>> RBL ist the ROM bootloader in the SoC, it's not only proprietary but also
>> in ROM and hence cannot be changed.
>>
>> RBL executes an AIS script. Sughosh, could you please explain what your
AIS
>> does or how you create it?
>
> So basically, this SPL business can be avoided and this all can be done
in a
> standard way?

I don't know, I never had to deal with booting from NAND. I was just
wondering what Sughosh's AIS is doing that he gets these SPL problems.
Christian


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