[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 10/11] Add u-boot-ubl.bin target to the Makefile

Christian Riesch christian.riesch at omicron.at
Mon Sep 17 11:10:04 CEST 2012


On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM, José Miguel Gonçalves
<jose.goncalves at inov.pt> wrote:
> On 09/17/2012 07:47 AM, Christian Riesch wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 11:27 AM, José Miguel Gonçalves
>> <jose.goncalves at inov.pt> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 09/14/2012 08:08 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 06:29:01PM +0100, Jos?? Miguel Gon??alves wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Samsung's S3C24XX SoCs need this in order to generate a binary image
>>>>> with the SPL and U-Boot concatenated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jos?? Miguel Gon??alves <jose.goncalves at inov.pt>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Changes for v2:
>>>>>      - None
>>>>> ---
>>>>>    Makefile |    7 ++++---
>>>>>    1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>>>>> index 058fb53..595b5f6 100644
>>>>> --- a/Makefile
>>>>> +++ b/Makefile
>>>>> @@ -442,13 +442,14 @@ $(obj)u-boot.sha1:        $(obj)u-boot.bin
>>>>>    $(obj)u-boot.dis:     $(obj)u-boot
>>>>>                  $(OBJDUMP) -d $< > $@
>>>>>    -$(obj)u-boot.ubl:       $(obj)spl/u-boot-spl.bin $(obj)u-boot.bin
>>>>> +$(obj)u-boot-ubl.bin:       $(obj)spl/u-boot-spl.bin $(obj)u-boot.bin
>>>>>                  $(OBJCOPY) ${OBJCFLAGS} --pad-to=$(PAD_TO) -O binary
>>>>> $(obj)spl/u-boot-spl $(obj)spl/u-boot-spl-pad.bin
>>>>>                  cat $(obj)spl/u-boot-spl-pad.bin $(obj)u-boot.bin >
>>>>> $(obj)u-boot-ubl.bin
>>>>> +               rm $(obj)spl/u-boot-spl-pad.bin
>>>>> +
>>>>> +$(obj)u-boot.ubl:       $(obj)u-boot-ubl.bin
>>>>>                  $(obj)tools/mkimage -n $(UBL_CONFIG) -T ublimage \
>>>>>                  -e $(CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) -d $(obj)u-boot-ubl.bin
>>>>> $(obj)u-boot.ubl
>>>>> -               rm $(obj)u-boot-ubl.bin
>>>>> -               rm $(obj)spl/u-boot-spl-pad.bin
>>>>>      $(obj)u-boot.ais:       $(obj)spl/u-boot-spl.bin $(obj)u-boot.bin
>>>>>                  $(obj)tools/mkimage -s -n $(if
>>>>> $(CONFIG_AIS_CONFIG_FILE),$(CONFIG_AIS_CONFIG_FILE),"/dev/null") \
>>>>
>>>> This diff is hard to read, but what exactly are you changing?  The
>>>> u-boot-ubl target is also used on TI platforms.  It looks like you're
>>>> making it such that u-boot-ubl.bin produces the old binary and
>>>> u-boot-ubl adds a new target which is the mkimage header on top of the
>>>> same bits as before, but without possibly padding the output image.  I
>>>> suspect in your case you could just set PAD_TO to 8192 in
>>>> board/../config.mk and use the existing target.
>>>>
>>> In the S3C2416 I don't need the mkimage stuff. I only need the raw SPL
>>> image
>>> padded at 8KB concatenated with the standard U-Boot. What I've done was
>>> to
>>> split the existing u-boot-ubl target in two; u-boot-ubl.bin, that I use
>>> to
>>> program the Flash, and u-boot-ubl that remains with the same
>>> functionality
>>> as before, just now it depends on u-boot-ubl.bin.
>>
>> I think you should drop the UBL names from your padding target
>> (u-boot-ubl.bin) since this is TI specific, use something more
>> generic.
>
>
> I only reused a temporary filename used for the u-boot-ubl target and make
> it a new target.
> If you think this is not an adequate name, can you suggest a new one?

u-boot.pad? u-boot-pad.bin?


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