[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/8] mxsboot: stop referring to i.MX28 as this ought to work for all i.MXS SoCs

Otavio Salvador otavio at ossystems.com.br
Wed May 30 14:01:05 CEST 2012


Dear Marek Vasut,

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:

> I'm unhappy about the image generator ;-)
>
> Ok, now Otavio will probably hate me, but I believe it'd be much more
> helpful to
> convert mxsboot into part of mkimage (though this is unrelated to this
> patch).
> And maybe even better, study the generation of boot headers and compare it
> with
> mx53/mx6q ones, as mx53 ones are supported by imximage and mx28 carries
> direct
> predecessor of mx53 bootrom and then try to implement support into
> imximage part
> of mkimage.
>

I agree and it would be better to get rid of it however I also think we
ought to focus on finishing the i.MX233 support now before start changing
it.


> > Either we say "i.MX28" - then
> > it's clear we mean a specific FSL SoC, identified by it's product
> > name.  Or we say "mxs" like allover the place in the Linux and U-Boot
> > code.
>
> Well, we can also say i.mx233/i.mx28 . MX6Q is supported by mkimage I
> think (see
> above).


I have done this change here and queued it for the next pull request. I use
MXS on some places and the i.MX233/i.MX28 on the usage message.

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Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
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