[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/4] New tag for Flattened Image Trees (FIT) - Booting Xen from a FIT.

[Simon Glass]

+Tom in case he has a comment

Hi Karl,

On 15 May 2015 at 15:13, Karl Apsite <Karl.Apsite at dornerworks.com> wrote:
>
> The FIT config now supports a tag named "loadables:" which is a
> comma separated list.  Users can add any number of images to the list,
> and u-boot will move the selected binaries to their listed
> load_addresses. This allows u-boot to boot xen from using an FIT
> configuration.  Xen expects a kernel to be placed at a predetermined
> location, however the "kernel" field was already filled by xen itself.
> This change allows the user to move the required binary before xen
> boots, all within the FIT's configuration.
>

I think I've convinced myself that this ('loadables') is a good
solution to the problem. I'm not 100% comfortable with the name but I
don't have a better one, and no one else has chimed in.

Will you actually use multiple images in your application?

>
> Karl Apsite (4):
>   add test for two 'loadables'
>   mkimage will now report information about loadable
>   add boot_get_loadables() to load listed images
>   Combine bootm_find_<thing> functions together
>
>  common/bootm.c                        | 49 ++++++++++++-----------
>  common/cmd_bootm.c                    |  4 +-
>  common/image-fit.c                    | 25 +++++++++++-
>  common/image.c                        | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  doc/uImage.FIT/source_file_format.txt |  4 ++
>  include/bootm.h                       |  2 +-
>  include/bootstage.h                   |  1 +
>  include/image.h                       | 28 +++++++++++++-
>  test/image/test-fit.py                | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  9 files changed, 221 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.3.7
>

Regards,
Simon