[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] SPL: DFU Support in SPL

B, Ravi ravibabu at ti.com
Mon Jul 25 16:40:21 CEST 2016


Tom

>> Traditionally the DFU support is available only as part 2nd stage boot 
>> loader(u-boot) and DFU is not supported in SPL.
>> 
>> The SPL-DFU feature is useful for boards which does not have MMC/SD, 
>> ethernet boot mechanism to boot the board and only has USB inteface.

>How well did you test DFU on other platforms after these changes?
>Thanks

Actually earlier platforms did not had this support,  support for either RNDIS boot mode (CONFIG_SPL_USBETH_SUPPORT) or
CONFIG_SPL_USB_SUPPORT (boot from mass-storage device) were only supported.

But ideally, this should work on any other platform, as functional flow of SPL-DFU is same as DFU functionality in u-boot and
reuse of common dfu driver, also DFU has been verified in multiple platforms in u-boot mainline.
The same DFU support is now brought to SPL to facilitate booting EVM using USB interface.

Regards
Ravi


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