[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/17] sandbox: Generic board support and other improvements

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Mon Apr 22 17:18:33 CEST 2013


On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 11:42:35AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:

> This series adds generic board support to sandbox and switches to use this
> always.
> 
> With sandbox it was noticed that turning CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD off
> can cause a build failure if a previous autoconf.mk exists which indicates
> that generic board is not supported, so a patch is provided to fix this.
> 
> It is useful to convert a pointer into an 'address' in the sandbox RAM
> buffer - the opposite of map_sysmem(). This is added in this series and
> used in several places.
> 
> With sandbox it is easier to read a file from the host than to use the
> CONFIG_OF_SEPARATE option, since this option requires knowledge of the
> executable image structure which is not really appropriate on the host
> system. A new CONFIG_OF_HOSTFILE provides this.
> 
> A few related FDT changes are included in this series also.
> 
> The -c option is enhanced to support passing entire scripts to sandbox.
> This is useful when writing non-trivial test code.
> 
> Most of these patches were previously submitted as part of the verified
> boot effort. This series collects the independent sandbox-related patches
> together to make it easier to review. THe whole series is marked as
> version 3 for this reason.

For the series,
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>

And I'd say 3/4/5 should be squashed into one patch, but it's your arch
so I'l defer if you think it adds bisect value or similar to do it in
that manner.

-- 
Tom
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