[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] mx6ul_14x14_evk: Remove CONFIG_SPL_FAT_SUPPORT

[Fabio Estevam]

Hi Peng and Stefano,

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de> wrote:

>>> #define CONFIG_SPL_LIBCOMMON_SUPPORT
>>> #define CONFIG_SPL_MMC_SUPPORT
>>> -#define CONFIG_SPL_FAT_SUPPORT
>>
>> Can we keep this? Without this, we need to burn u-boot.img into sdcard, but
>> i prefer to load u-boot.img from the fat partition.
>
> Well, how U-Boot is stored on the SD-Card is a decision that you take
> based on the balance safety against comfortably.
> Both are ok on my side. If we put u-boot.img in raw SD at a fixed
> address, it is very uncommon that a user destroy accessing it. On the
> other side, putting it into a FAT partition makes easier to update for
> everybody - just copying it into a disk.
> The issue reported by Fabio is like a corrupted SD-Card - the SD-Card
> does not contain the correct bootloader and it is ok if it does not boot
> or hangs. Both ways have advantages and disadvantages.

I am trying to get this more standard across Freescale boards.

Like it was pointed out here:
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-August/222061.html

I think it can be confusing for the end user if each FSL board has a
different way for booting u-boot.img, so that's why I chose the common
approach here.

Regards,

Fabio Estevam