[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] spl: add ymodem support

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Wed Mar 7 20:30:28 CET 2012


On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Mikhail Kshevetskiy
<mikhail.kshevetskiy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 08:25:39 -0700
> Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:54:05AM +0400, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote:
>>
>> > We have an omap l138 based board without jtag and empty spi flash.
>> > UART is an only way to load something on this board, so we are using
>> > uart to load spl image u-boot and then we are using ymodem to load
>> > the rest part of u-boot.
>>
>> This conflicts a bit with the SPL ymodem support that's now in
>> u-boot-arm/master and making its way into mainline.  Please rebase (and
>> perhaps play some Makefile magic games to get
>> arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/spl_ymodem.c available to davinci, and
>> yes, we all know we need to unify more of the SPL codebase).
>
> Hm, spl_ymodem_load_image() should be arch independent, so I suggest moving it
> and getcymodem() out from arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/spl_ymodem.c to
> common/xyzModem.c (similarly to my patch).
>
> any comments, suggestions?

Stefano is working on trying to unify SPL, but the first step is
getting the SPL loads Linux patch series in.

-- 
Tom


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