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

[Stefano Babic]

On 25/04/2013 14:49, Benoît Thébaudeau wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> On Thursday, April 25, 2013 2:48:59 PM, Stefan Roese wrote:
>> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 6/6] arm: mx5: Add support for DENX M53EVK
>>
>> On 25.04.2013 14:38, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>> 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. 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 program the image to
>>>> NAND flash.
>>>
>>> This would interfere with MBR on SD cards, the offset is there for a reason
>>> ;-)
>>
>> Yes, makes sense. But only for SD cards. On other mediums (e.g. SPI NOR,
>> NAND) this padded image would be easier (less error prone) to handle.
> 
> For NAND, we already have u-boot-with-nand-spl.imx.

Is it padded at the beginnig ? I have thought the pad is between SPL and
u-boot based on CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO, but we need to flash always at the
right offset.

Regards,
Stefano

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