[U-Boot] imx6, spl and falcon boot

Alexandre Belloni alexandre.belloni at piout.net
Tue Feb 19 15:00:17 CET 2013


On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:35:01PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote :
> Dear Alexandre Belloni,
> 
> In message <20130219112532.GB24397 at piout.net> you wrote:
> >
> > No, that is not supported and probably won't be. Some people will argue
> 
> I think you are wrong.  This is definitely a "not supported _yet_".
> 
> > that you probably don't need a bootloader once you are able to boot a
> > linux kernel as you can probably do everything you want from there.
> 
> Yes, some people will think so, and some will actually do that.
> Others (and I would expect these to be the majority) will realize the
> benefits of being able to switch on demand (say, key press, jumper
> setting, etc.) between different boot modes, boot images, etc.
> 
> I am absolutely sure that SPL support for iMX6 will be added rather
> sooner than later.
> 

Yeah, don't misinterpret me, I was just saying that it will not be
supported in whoosh. I also believe that SPL and falcon mode will come
to i.mx6 and I'm also interested in getting that support ;)


-- 
Alexandre Belloni


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