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

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Thu Apr 25 16:12:43 CEST 2013


Dear Stefan Roese,

> Hi Benoît,
> 
> On 25.04.2013 14:49, Benoît Thébaudeau wrote:
> >>>> 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.
> 
> I'm thinking more about NAND on iMX6. Which doesn't support SPL (until
> now). We could add a new build target for imx6 for NAND booting as well.
> Not sure if this is better moved to a build target or to the imximage
> generation tool?

Maybe we should focus on common u-boot.nand target too, which would produce 
correct result depending on the board configuration etc.

> > For SPI NOR, something
> > similar could be done, or this could be done by imximage.
> 
> Yes. Perhaps its best to add this to imximage.
> 
> Thanks,
> Stefan

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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