[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] MX28: Add u-boot.mx28.sd and u-boot.mx28.nand make targets
Marek Vasut
marex at denx.de
Wed May 23 11:27:51 CEST 2012
Dear Wolfgang Denk,
> Dear Marek Vasut,
>
> In message <1337729574-30475-1-git-send-email-marex at denx.de> you wrote:
> > These targets allow for easy invocation of mxstool, for generating
> > the u-boot images bootable in mx28 CPU.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > +$(obj)u-boot.mx28.sd: $(obj)u-boot.sb
> > + $(obj)tools/mxsboot sd $(obj)u-boot.sb $(obj)u-boot.mx28.sd
> > +
> > +$(obj)u-boot.mx28.nand: $(obj)u-boot.sb
> > + $(obj)tools/mxsboot nand $(obj)u-boot.sb $(obj)u-boot.mx28.nand
>
> There are rules missing to clean up these new images when make clean /
> make distclean is used.
>
> Why do we need this special "mx28" part in the name? I don't see how
> this would be useful, but it hurts as you will have to add a (probably
> growing) list uf targets to the remove lists. - what's wrong with just
> calling these "u-boot.bin.sd" and "u-boot.bin.nand" ?
Because there'd then be no way to tell apart u-boot.bin.sd for another target
but mx28.
> Would it not be useful to automatically build these images when
> someone runs just "make -j8 -s m28evk" (or "./MAKEALL m28evk") ?
Usually, you just want to update the system. You don't need the full image for
that in NAND case. You do in SD card. Ok, it might be useful.
>
> Also, I'm a bit surprised about the restrictive permissions of the
> resulting images:
>
> -rw------- 1 wd wd 464320 May 23 11:09 u-boot.mx28.sd
> -> umask
> 0002
>
> This should be fixed (probably in tools/mxsboot0 ?
That's a separate bug, but ok.
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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