[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 10/11] Add u-boot-pad.bin target to the Makefile

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Wed Sep 19 19:11:08 CEST 2012


On 09/19/2012 10:58 AM, José Miguel Gonçalves wrote:
> On 19-09-2012 17:10, Scott Wood wrote:
>> On 09/19/2012 06:25:26 AM, José Miguel Gonçalves wrote:
>>> Samsung's S3C24XX SoCs need this in order to generate a binary image
>>> with a padded SPL concatenated with U-Boot.
>>
>> I still think "pad" is a lousy name for this.  It refers to a minor
>> implementation detail of how the image was put together.
>>
>> If you don't like the suggestions in
>> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2012-September/134191.html, how
>> about
>> "u-boot-with-spl.bin"?
> 
> I used a suggestion made by Christian Riesch and accepted by Tom Rini.
> 
> I'm totally cool with any name that the U-Boot core maintainers would
> like to use, though I would prefer a shorter name than
> "u-boot-with-spl.bin" because I'm lazy and don't like to type too many
> keys when I upgrade by tftp :-) Because of that I think I would prefer
> "u-boot-all.bin". So, everybody agrees with that name?

Hmmm. What does "all" mean? It's not that descriptive.

On Tegra we currently have:

u-boot-spl.bin - just SPL.
u-boot.bin - just main U-Boot, I think.
u-boot-dtb.bin - main U-Boot plus an appended DTB, I think.
u-boot-dtb-tegra.bin - SPL+U-Boot+DTB.

Also, some have argued that they want to append a DTB outside the U-Boot
build process, so does "all" include SPL+U-Boot or SPL+U-Boot+DTB, or ...?


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