[U-Boot] [PATCH 11/12 V3] SPL: EXYNOS: Prepare for variable size SPL support
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Thu Sep 19 08:11:08 CEST 2013
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Rajeshwari S Shinde <
rajeshwari.s at samsung.com> wrote:
> When variable size SPL is used, the BL1 expects the SPL to be
> encapsulated differently: instead of putting the checksum at a fixed
> offset in the SPL blob, prepend the blob with a header including the
> size and the checksum.
>
> The enhancements include
> - adding a command line option, '--vs' to indicate the need for the
> variable size encapsulation
> - padding the fixed size encapsulated blob with 0xff instead of
> random
> memory contents
> - do not silently truncate the input file, report error instead
> - no need to explicitly closing files/freeing memory, this all
> happens
> on exit; removing cleanups it makes code clearer
> - profuse commenting
> - modify Makefile to allow enabling the new feature per board
>
> Signed-off-by: Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb at chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Rajeshwari S Shinde <rajeshwari.s at samsung.com>
>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
Will 5250 support variable-sized SPL also?
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