[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/3] Distroboot support for DE0-nano-SoC board

[Frank Kunz]

Am 28.01.2017 um 22:25 schrieb Westergreen, Dalon:
> On Sat, 2017-01-28 at 21:53 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 01/28/2017 09:47 PM, Frank Kunz wrote:
>>>
>>> This adds common distribution boot environment variables for
>>> DE0-nanos-SoC board. The current boot procedure is extended to run
>>> the distribution boot as fallback.
>>> The SOC ROM loader scans for the SPL in the special partition 0xa2
>>> (partition mode)
>>> if this is not found it scans the MMC card sector 0 (raw mode), for up to
>>> four valid SPLs. When a partition table (MBR, GPT) is used with raw mode,
>>> the first SPL must not be written to the MMC and the ROM loader uses the
>>> second SPL.
>>>
>>> Frank Kunz (3):
>>>   socfpga: Enable abort for DE-nano-SoC SPL uboot load from MMC
>>>   socfpga: Add distoboot support for DE0-nano-SoC
>>>   socfpga: Adapt environment storage for DE0-nano-SoC
>>>
>>>  include/configs/socfpga_de0_nano_soc.h | 32
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> CCing Dalon, he sent a series
>> [PATCH v7 0/7] arm: socfpga: update default u-boot environment
>>
>> Can you two coordinate the efforts ? I think it'd make sense to wait for
>> his series to reach v8 and then rebase on top of it. I would also like
>> Dalon to do a v8 which just extracts the common env, so we can
>> merge that first and then look into the more intrusive bits.
>>
> Cool, i can submit a v8 which just moves the env to a common location.
> I have reservations about the use use of raw mode while an MBR is
> present.  It is definitely not an intended use, although it does
> work. If you like i can just merge the two patch sets into v8?
> 
I'm fine with that. Looking forward to v8 then.

Br,
Frank