[U-Boot] [PATCH 05/17] SPL: FIT: allow loading multiple images

Lokesh Vutla lokeshvutla at ti.com
Tue Mar 14 10:53:25 UTC 2017



On Wednesday 01 March 2017 07:55 AM, Andre Przywara wrote:
> So far we were not using the FIT image format to its full potential:
> The SPL FIT loader was just loading the first image from the /images
> node plus one of the listed DTBs.
> Now with the refactored loader code it's easy to load an arbitrary
> number of images in addition to the two mentioned above.
> As described in the FIT image source file format description, iterate
> over all images listed at the "loadables" property in the configuration
> node and load every image at its desired location.
> This allows to load any kind of images:
> - firmware images to execute before U-Boot proper (for instance
>   ARM Trusted Firmware (ATF))
> - firmware images for management processors (SCP, arisc, ...)
> - firmware images for devices like WiFi controllers
> - bit files for FPGAs
> - additional configuration data
> - kernels and/or ramdisks
> The actual usage of this feature would be platform and/or board specific.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>


Reviewed-by: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvuta at ti.com>

Thanks and regards,
Lokesh


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