[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] common/armflash: Support for ARM flash images

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 01:23:51PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
>
>> The ARM reference designs all use a special flash image format
>> that stores a footer (two versions exist) at the end of the last
>> erase block of the image in flash memory.
>>
>> Version one of the footer is indicated by the magic number
>> 0xA0FFFF9F at 12 bytes before the end of the flash block and
>> version two is indicated by the magic number 0x464F4F54 0x464C5348
>> (ASCII for "FLSHFOOT") in the very last 8 bytes of the erase block.
>>
>> This command driver implements support for both versions of the
>> AFS images (the name comes from the Linux driver in drivers/mtd/afs.c)
>> and makes it possible to list images and load an image by name into
>> the memory with these commands:
>>
>> afs - lists flash contents
>> afs load <image> - loads image to address indicated in the image
>> afs load <image> <addres> - loads image to a specified address
>>
>> This image scheme is used on the ARM Integrator family, ARM
>> Versatile family, ARM RealView family (not yet supported in U-Boot)
>> and ARM Versatile Express family up to and including the new
>> Juno board for 64 bit development.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>
> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>

So who's picking up these three patches?

Yours,
Linus Walleij