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

[Dalon Westergreen]

On Sat, 2017-01-28 at 23:30 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 01/28/2017 10:25 PM, Westergreen, Dalon wrote:
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> No, please just keep the stuff separate, so we can get something in
> and then move on to the next thing.
> 
Will do, it should be identical to the v6 patches.  I also have tested
a patch to support searching for the a2 partition to load the uboot image
which i will send afterwards