[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 00/10] Add Marvell Dove and SolidRun CuBox

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Thu Feb 14 22:44:26 CET 2013


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 01:35:47PM -0800, Daniel Stodden wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 13:38 -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 02:46:57PM -0800, Prafulla Wadaskar wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Luka Perkov [mailto:luka at openwrt.org]
> > > > Sent: 11 February 2013 02:08
> > > > To: Sebastian Hesselbarth
> > > > Cc: Prafulla Wadaskar; u-boot at lists.denx.de; Rabeeh Khoury; Albert
> > > > Aribaud; Andy Fleming; Joe Hershberger; Daniel Stodden
> > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] Add Marvell Dove and SolidRun CuBox
> > > > 
> > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:43:00AM +0100, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> > > > > u-boot has kwboot for kirkwood since ages, but the general
> > > > functionality
> > > > > to boot through UART boot mode also applies to above SoCs. I took
> > > > > kwbimage to reflect that kwboot should be used for booting this
> > > > image.
> > > > > IMHO introducing new abbreviated image names like dvbimage will just
> > > > > distract people from using the correct tool to boot it. kwboot will
> > > > not
> > > > > be renamed, will it?
> > > > 
> > > > I don't mind if we rename kwboot to lets say mvebu-boot. That name
> > > > would
> > > > fit for kirkwood, dove and armada SoCs in the future...
> > > 
> > > That's good idea.
> > > I vote for renaming kwboot as "mvboot", that will inline with predefined file naming strategy.
> > 
> > Is kwboot practically extensible to mmp and pxa?
> 
> If those have a similar mechanism, and it happens to be based on Xmodem,
> then there's probably sharable ground.
> 
> The boot message protocol on Marvell chips is a fairly ad-hoc construct.

right, I was more concerned with the naming convention.  At least in the
kernel, mvebu includes all Marvell SoCs _except_ mmp and pxa.  I would
presume mv would be an all-inclusive name.

I didn't really have a strong opinion on it, so I'm fine either way.  In
hindsight, I'd prefer not to type 'mvebu-boot'...

thx,

Jason.


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