[U-Boot] [U-Boot: RESEND][PATCH 0/7] Add support for Keystone2 SoC and K2HK EVM

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Murali,

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:22:53 -0500, Murali Karicheri
<m-karicheri2 at ti.com> wrote:

> On 2/10/2014 3:32 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> > Hi Murali,
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 18:23:07 -0500, Murali Karicheri
> > <m-karicheri2 at ti.com> wrote:
> >
> >>   - Resending since I missed some in the CC
> >>
> >> This patch series add support for keystone2 SoC and K2HK EVM.
> >>
> >> Following patches were reviewed before in this list and v1 of the
> >> same is send with review comments incorporated:-
> >>    - tools: mkimage: add support for gpimage format
> >>    - arm: add support for arch timer
> >>    - NAND: DaVinci: allow forced disable of subpage writes
> >>
> >> The patch below is added as a seperate patch based on comments:-
> >>     - tools: sort the entries in Makefile
> >>
> >> Murali Karicheri (5):
> >>    tools: sort the entries in Makefile
> >>    tools: mkimage: add support for gpimage format
> > Is this image format required? Can't one of the existing image formats
> > be used?
> Alebert,
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> We are actually re-using part of the OMAP image format by factoring out 
> the common code
> and re-using.  So this is not a new format. Please review the code.

Thanks. This describes what you do and how you do it, but it does not
tell me why you are doing it and why you can't do otherwise. Let me
rephrase my question since you're mentioning branching off the OMAP
image format: why branch off? Why not simply use the existing OMAP image
format? Or another one?

> Murali

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.