[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] Enable ROCKCHIP_SPL_BACK_TO_BROM for firefly-rk3288 board

[Simon Glass]

Hi Romain,

On 21 January 2017 at 00:51, Romain Perier <romain.perier at collabora.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Le 21/01/2017 à 04:51, Simon Glass a écrit :
>> On 17 January 2017 at 02:32, Romain Perier <romain.perier at collabora.com> wrote:
>>> Like the rock2, this board has been tested with back to brom feature.
>>> This commits adjusts environment offset regarding if back_to_brom is
>>> enabled or not and uses this feature by default.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Romain Perier <romain.perier at collabora.com>
>>> ---
>>>  configs/firefly-rk3288_defconfig | 2 ++
>>>  include/configs/firefly-rk3288.h | 9 +++++++++
>>>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
>> We need at least one board that does not use this option. Also,
>> doesn't this mean that we need to change how the image is written to
>> the board?
>>
>> Should we use binman to create a suitable image?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Simon
> Why do you want at least one board without this option ? for testing
> that it's still working without back_to_brom ? That's weird because all
> rk3288-based board has the same limitations regarding the SPL, no ?

Yes, but remember this is a non-standard booting mechanism, and one
that I hope we can move away from in future. Also firefly does not
*need* this mechanism. If we don't have one board that uses the
standard mechanism then it might stop working.

Regards,
Simon