[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] spl: MMC U-Boot image load from raw partition

[Paul Kocialkowski]

Le samedi 08 novembre 2014 à 23:19 +0100, Albert ARIBAUD a écrit :
> Hello Paul,
> 
> On Sat,  8 Nov 2014 23:14:54 +0100, Paul Kocialkowski
> <contact at paulk.fr> wrote:
> > This is a first attempt at adding support for U-Boot image load from raw
> > partitions. It does not support OS boot as I cannot test it on my current
> > setup.
> > 
> > This is going to be useful for the Optimus Black port (please do not consider
> > this as dead code because no board is using it right now, there will be one
> > soon)!
> 
> Well... Why don't you just post these two patches a little later, as
> part of the upcoming series which will add support for the Optimus
> Black?

The honest answer here is that I don't think I'll have time to handle
having the patches reviewed all at once and that I prefer to do things
step by step, week after week (work on the next thing when the previous
piece is ready or nearly so). Things are independent enough for this to
work.

> > On the Optimus Black, the second stage bootloader (U-Boot in our case)
> > is stored on the second partition of the internal EMMC. This patch allows
> > reading from that partition without the need of providing the U-Boot config
> > with a sector address, but with the partition address.
> > 
> > It makes sense as there is already code to read partition tables, so it would
> > be a shame to hardcode the sector address while it can be obtained dynamically.
> > 
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> 
> 
> 
> Amicalement,

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