[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] common: image: update boot_get_fpga to support arbitrary fpga image

[Marek Vasut]

On 02/20/2017 06:35 PM, Moritz Fischer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 6:59 AM, Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com> wrote:
> 
>> Definitely I am open to improve this subsystem to make it more flexible.
> 
> Over at linux-fpga ([1]) we're currently discussing the idea of coming
> up with a header
> format (vendor neutral) that we stitch onto the fpga image to allow the fpga-mgr
> to derive certain features of the image from the image itself (i.e. is
> the image encrypted,
> compressed, ...).

Can you CC me on that discussion ? I think it'd be for the best to use
DT for the header format, it's documented and vendor-neutral already.

> We're trying to come up with an extensible format that would allow us
> to add stuff like
> encryption keys etc.

Nothing like a NIH format :)

> Cheers,
> 
> Moritz
> 
> 
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9574399/
> 


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Best regards,
Marek Vasut