[U-Boot] [PATCH] board: freescale: ls1012ardb: Add command to switch QSPI bank

[Scott Wood]

On Fri, 2018-04-20 at 03:16 +0000, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:
> Thanks Scott for reviewing this patch
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: U-Boot [mailto:u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de] On Behalf Of Scott
> > Wood
> > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2018 6:40 AM
> > To: Calvin Johnson <linux.cj at gmail.com>
> > Cc: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot at lists.denx.de>
> > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] board: freescale: ls1012ardb: Add command to
> > switch QSPI bank
> > 
> > On Thu, 2018-04-19 at 14:09 +0530, Calvin Johnson wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:17 PM, Scott Wood <oss at buserror.net> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2018-04-16 at 08:40 +0530, Calvin Johnson wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 12:18 AM, Jagdish Gediya
> > > > > <jagdish.gediya at nxp.com
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > Add command "boot_bank X" to switch the boot bank to either
> > > > > > 1 or 2.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Are these functions required as this can be handled by new env
> > > > > vars to switch banks?
> > > > 
> > > > If you're going to add something new, a command is much more
> > > > pleasant than env vars -- particularly if you stick to something
> > > > like the familiar interfaces ("pix altbank", "qix altbank", etc),
> > > > and include reporting of which bank was booted from if it's not
> > > > there already.  Of course, a fully standardized interface would be
> > > > even better.
> > > 
> > > Yes, a fully standardized generic interface supporting all similar
> > > platforms with multiple banks
> > 
> > And other boot sources such as NAND and MMC.
> 
> 
> LS1012A has only one boot source i.e. QSPI

I meant that if there is any effort to standardize the command it should
support multiple boot sources, not just bank selection.

-Scott