[U-Boot] Breakage on gw_ventana

Stefano Babic sbabic at denx.de
Fri May 20 15:36:35 CEST 2016


Hi Marek, Tim,

On 20/05/2016 15:16, Marek Vasut wrote:

>> Could you revert 291000894ed4d6257830baba547764b86e335b5c and/or
>> submit a patch to move CONFIG_SPL_EXT_SUPPORT back into the board
>> config? It looks like the novena board was the only one using it and
>> it breaks Ventana build.
> 
> I would much rather see explicit disable of CONFIG_SPL_EXT_SUPPORT for
> ventana. If we have FS boot, we should push for filesystems which are
> not a patent minefield (like fat).
> 
> So what about adding this to ventana:
> #undef CONFIG_SPL_EXT_SUPPORT

Agree. This makes sense. We set as common rules what most boards need,
if that let us the way to disable for some boards. The way described by
Marek does this.

>>> It's it used during HAB ? It might be some area used by the crypto
>>> coprocessor or somesuch.
>>
>> That's a good question. Are you using HAB anywhere or anyone else we
>> know of using SPL and HAB that can test setting CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
>> to 0x00900000?
> 
> I am not using HAB on mx6, I think there was only one user of it ever.

HAB remains a use case, but I cannot find in the manual any reference
for the IRAM (if any) it needs.

Regards,
Stefano Babic

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