[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/7] fdt: Replace u-boot-dtb.bin with u-boot.bin

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Tue Feb 2 02:59:55 CET 2016


On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 04:00:30PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 01/31/2016 06:10 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> >At present u-boot.bin holds the plain U-Boot binary without the device tree.
> >This is somewhat annoying since you need either u-boot.bin or u-boot-dtb.bin
> >depending on whether device tree is used.
> >
> >This series adjusts the build such that u-boot.bin includes a device tree if
> >enabled, and the plain binary is in u-boot-nodtb.bin. For now u-boot-dtb.bin
> >remains the same.
> >
> >This should be acceptable since:
> >
> >- without OF_CONTROL, u-boot.bin still does not include a device tree
> >- with OF_CONTROL, u-boot-dtb.bin does not change
> >
> >The main impact is to build systems which are set up to use u-boot.bin as
> >the output file and then add a device tree. These will have to change to use
> >u-boot-nodtb.bin instead.
> >
> >The original decision to use a separate u-boot-dtb.bin was aimed at allowing
> >any device tree file to be concatenated to the u-boot.bin image after the
> >build. However this no-longer seems so important. More important is the
> >convenience of using the same output file regardless of the setting for
> >OF_CONTROL.
> 
> The series,
> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com
> 
> (Both out T124-and-before and T210-and-later flashing processes
> still seem to work OK with the new file naming etc.)
> 
> Patches 1-3,
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>

I've pushed this since I want -rc1 to have it (so everyone sees it and
adjusts now on a clean tag) and the feedback seems like minor updates
that we can do after the fact.  Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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