[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 03/12] spl: Make image loader infrastructure more universal
Tom Rini
trini at konsulko.com
Fri Jul 19 00:00:34 UTC 2019
On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 05:55:46PM -0500, Andreas Dannenberg wrote:
> The current U-Boot SPL image loader infrastructure is very powerful,
> able to initialize and load from a variety of boot media however it
> is strongly geared towards loading specific types of images in a very
> specific way. To address the need being able to use this infrastructure
> to load arbitrary image files go ahead and refactor it as follows:
>
> - Refactor existing spl_mmc_load_image function into superset function,
> accepting additional arguments such as filenames and media load offset
> (same concept can also be applied toother spl_XXX_load_image functions)
> - Extend the loader function to "remember" their peripheral initialization
> status so that the init is only done once during the boot process,
> - Extend the FIT image loading function to allow skipping the parsing/
> processing of the FIT contents (so that this can be done separately
> in a more customized fashion)
> - Populate the SPL_LOAD_IMAGE_METHOD() list with a trampoline function,
> invoking the newly refactored superset functions in a way to maintain
> compatibility with the existing behavior
>
> This refactoring initially covers MMC/SD card loading (RAW and FS-based).
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dannenberg <dannenberg at ti.com>
> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
--
Tom
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