[U-Boot] [PATCH] ventana: Add Gateworks Ventana family support

[Stefan Roese]

Hi Tim,

On 29.01.2014 02:26, Tim Harvey wrote:
>>> Regardless of what is loading the next level (u-boot.bin) the initial
>>> flashing of NAND is still currently handled only by kobs-ng so I'm not
>>> sure how this differs in this respect.  I plan to look at adding the
>>> functionality of kobs-ng to u-boot at some point.
>>
>> If as I think kobs-ng is only a flasher, it does not take part to the
>> build of U-Boot binaries. IMHO it should be not part of U-Boot sources,
>> but maybe there are some features that can be interesting.
>>
>
> I was not referring to making the code a part of uboot sources but
> adding the functionality that it provides such that one could use
> uboot to update itself on an IMX NAND device.  I'm actually surprised
> nobody has done this before for IMX in general as its a bit
> inconvenient to boot to a linux based OS in order to run kobs-ng to
> flash the bootloader.  Regardless, this would be functionality added
> later.

That would be really convenient. Not having to boot Linux and to rely on 
kobs-ng for flashing U-Boot for NAND booting imx6.

> It appears the only other mainlined IMX6 bootloader to support NAND is
> the Titanium and there is no README for it at all.  If there were, I
> would expect it to say pretty much the same thing that my proposed
> Ventana README states.  There was a comment by Fabio on original
> titanium patch to include a README explaining how to flash and boot
> from NAND but it apparently didn't make it in:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/158436/focus=158441
>
> I've added Stefan Roese and Fabio to the cc to hear their thoughts.

Yes, your README seems correct to me. So for this README:

Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>

Thanks,
Stefan