[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 6/6] arm: mx5: Add support for DENX M53EVK

[Stefano Babic]

On 25/04/2013 10:38, Stefan Roese wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> On 25.04.2013 09:31, Stefano Babic wrote:
>> On 24/04/2013 12:59, Benoît Thébaudeau wrote:
>>
>>>> Apart of that and not related to this patch, if we in future use SPL
>>>> also for booting from SD, we can get a single way to boot from different
>>>> storage. TI based SOCs already do this: same SPL, it checks from SD and
>>>> NAND.
>>>
>>> With this also comes the issue of BOOT_FROM in board/denx/m53evk/imximage.cfg.
>>> Strictly speaking, in order to be correct, it should be #if-ed depending on some
>>> config option: nand or sd.
>>
>> Right, this is also correct. Anyway, BOOT_FROM is used to get the offset
>> inside the storage, and only to be as much flexible as possible, each
>> storage has defined its own offset. However, Freescale uses the same
>> offset (0x400) for most storages (NAND, SD..) and another one for NOR or
>> OneNAND  (0x1000). Maybe it is easier to have only this two cases.
> 
> Yes, I would prefer that.
> 
> And being at it, why don't we add the offset to the resulting image as
> well? This would make programming the images to the destination (SD,
> NAND, MMC etc) easier.

Well, than this feature shoulb be added to the mkimage tool. I suggest
to add a directive to the configuration file (imximage.cfg), such as
PADDING or something like this.

> We would not have to care for the correct offset
> then (which is more error prone). And it is necessary btw, to have this
> offset added, when using the FSL kobs-ng tool

To my knowledge: do you have the sources for this tool to better
understand what it does ? I can find binaries with different version (I
think 1.3 is the last), but no sources at all. I have not found if it is
open source or not.

Best regards,
Stefano

-- 
=====================================================================
DENX Software Engineering GmbH,     MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel
HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany
Phone: +49-8142-66989-53 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: sbabic at denx.de
=====================================================================