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

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Tom,

In message <5FBF8E85CA34454794F0F7ECBA79798F379F6FD992 at HQMAIL04.nvidia.com> you wrote:
>
> If you flash u-boot-dtb-tegra.bin, you'll get a fully functioning
> U-Boot. There's an intermediate file (u-boot-dtb.bin) that I assume
> is u-boot.bin+dtb - I'm not sure why it's left around - Allen could
> comment here.

I _dislike_ the idea of having image names which include architecture
or even board parts.  I would really like to have generic names, that
can be used in a consistent way across platforms, architectures and
boards.

> So in my eyes, all you really need is u-boot-dtb-tegra.bin - an
> unwieldy name, to be sure, but it seems to satisfy your request for a
> Soc identifier in the name. I voted for just having u-boot.bin be the

Please reconsider.  I definitely do NOT want to have SoC names or that
in any such images!


IIRC, the original idea was to provide image names (common for all
architectures, SoCs, boards) that only depend on where you install
U-Boot to.  in this way, we would have:

- u-boot.bin	for the generic case (say, for installation into NOR
                flash, no SPL or similar needed).
- u-boot-nand.bin
		for installation in NAND (with all needed headers,
		padding etc. included)
- u-boot-onenand.bin
		for installation in OneNAND
- u-boot.sd	for installation on a SDCard
		[actually we have an inconsistency in names here; this
		should have been "u-boot-sd.bin" or maybe even better
		"u-boot-sdcard.bin"]
etc.

It is very important to me that we do NOT include any architectures,
SoCs, or board specifc parts in the names because this will cause
major PITA for all kind of automatic test suites etc.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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