[U-Boot] [PATCH V5 31/31] imx: add i.MX8MQ EVK support

[Stefano Babic]

Hi Peng,

On 23/01/2018 03:24, Peng Fan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 03:00:36PM +0100, Stefano Babic wrote:
>> Hi Peng,
>>

[snip]

>> On 10/01/2018 06:20, Peng Fan wrote:

>>> +Get the ddr firmware and tools
>>> +====================
>>> +Note: Better to use NXP released yocto to get the firmware in case
>>> +      there is new releases.
>>> +https://www.nxp.com/lgfiles/NMG/MAD/YOCTO/firmware-imx-7.2.bin
>>> +imx-mkimage: https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/imx-mkimage/
>>
>>
>> I am just asking which is the plan here. This is a fork of U-Boot's
>> mkimage tool. I did not see attempts to push changes to imximage mainline.
>>
>> Any thoughts ? This means that it is not possible inside U-Boot to
>> produce a U-Boot image, but we need an external tool that was *based* on
>> U-Boot code....
> 
> I'll try to develop the support in u-boot, but I could not commit.
> The new format is a bit complicated.

Can it help if we introduce a new image format parallel to the older ?
This introduce a new tools/<new imx format> that is suitable just for
i.MX8. I understand that merging with current code is difficult and it
is easy to introduce breakages.

> 
>>
>> I have not understood the usage of firmware-imx-7.2.bin. You ask to load
>> it, but it is not used in further commands.
> 
> My bad. Diego's patch has that.

ok, thanks.

Best regards,
Stefano

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