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

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri Apr 3 13:40:15 CEST 2015


On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:20:48PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 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?

I will, post release.

-- 
Tom
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