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

[Marek Vasut]

On 01/28/2017 11:47 PM, Dalon Westergreen wrote:
> 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
> 
Cool, thanks! btw we just missed the MW (closes on today), but I'll try
to add at least the cleanup, which should be harmless.

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut