[U-Boot] [PATCH 01/16] ARM: remove vpac270 board support

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sat Aug 1 18:08:56 CEST 2015


Hi Marek,

On 28 July 2015 at 09:57, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 05:53:10 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> >> $ git describe
>> >> v2015.07-307-g2647394
>> >> $ make vpac270_ond_256_defconfig
>> >> #
>> >> # configuration written to .config
>> >> #
>> >> $ make -s CROSS_COMPILE=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-
>> >> ===================== WARNING ======================
>> >> Please convert this board to generic board.
>> >> Otherwise it will be removed by the end of 2014.
>> >> See doc/README.generic-board for further information
>> >> ====================================================
>> >> $ ls -l spl/u-boot-spl.bin
>> >> -rwxrwxr-x 1 masahiro masahiro 2828 Jul 28 00:53 spl/u-boot-spl.bin
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> It is over 2KB.
>> >
>> > So the hardware spilt already? Aww :-(
>> >
>> > I wonder, maybe converting this to TPL might be the correct solution ?
>>
>> Maybe, if you could split it into two images.
>
> I think I might need TPL and SPL:
>
> TPL: Load the SDRAM init code into CPU's SRAM from the OneNAND
> SPL: Load big U-Boot from OneNAND into the main SDRAM
>
> ... or maybe we should just sacrifice the machine in the name of progress
> and be done with it. I don't know when I might have time to fix it afterall.

Well it sounds like it is already broken. It worries me that SPL has
somehow got larger though - any reason for that?

Regards,
Simon


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