[U-Boot] [PATCH v1] arm: socfpga: Enable load zImage and Linux DTB from QSPI

Chin Liang See clsee at altera.com
Fri Nov 27 02:24:49 CET 2015


Hi Pavel,

On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 15:43 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > Adding new environment qspiload which will load zImage and
> > Linux DTB from serial NOR flash. The default flash offset for
> > the images as below and they are configurable during run time.
> > 
> > - zImage located at    0xa0000 with assuming file size 6MB
> > - Linux DTB located at 0x50000 with assuming file size 28kB
> 
> Hmm. Ok, zImage second, so that it can grow. Makes sense. Not sure if
> 28kB is not a bit small for DTB. I'd reserve at least 64kB.

Yup, it can grow up to 64kB as the size for a sector. We used 28KB
mainly for boot time performance.

> 
> > Please adjust the file size env var if exceeding the default
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chin Liang See <clsee at altera.com>
> > Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen at opensource.altera.com>
> > Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinh.linux at gmail.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel at denx.de>
> 
> Notice that you sent two patches marked "v1".

Haha too obsess with the -v argument within git format-patch :P

Thanks
Chin Liang

> 
> Thanks,
> 								Pavel


More information about the U-Boot mailing list