[U-Boot] [linux-sunxi] [PATCH v2 2/6] sunxi: Extend SPL header versioning
Jagan Teki
jagan at amarulasolutions.com
Fri Oct 26 06:07:27 UTC 2018
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 2:53 PM Icenowy Zheng <icenowy at aosc.io> wrote:
>
> From: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
>
> On Allwinner SoCs we use some free bytes at the beginning of the SPL image
> to store various information. We have a version byte to allow updates,
> but changing this always requires all tools to be updated as well.
>
> Introduce the concept of semantic versioning [1] to the SPL header:
> The major part of the version number only changes on incompatible
> updates, a minor number bump indicates backward compatibility.
> This patch just documents the major/minor split, adds some comments
> to the header file and uses the versioning information for the existing
> users.
>
> [1] https://semver.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy at aosc.io>
> ---
Acked-by: Jagan Teki <jagan at openedev.com>
Applied to u-boot-sunxi/master
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