[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/2] cmd: Add 'bcb' command to read/modify/write BCB fields

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue May 21 20:55:19 UTC 2019


Hi Eugeniu,

On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 11:32, Eugeniu Rosca <erosca at de.adit-jv.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 10:43:04AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 May 2019 at 01:23, Eugeniu Rosca <erosca at de.adit-jv.com> wrote:
> [..]
> > > I can identify two Android-dedicated README files, but none of them
> > > seems to be suitable for the new command:
> > >  - doc/README.android-fastboot
> > >  - doc/README.avb2
> > >
> > > Igor, Sam, what's your view on the above? Would you suggest creating
> > > a doc/README.android-bcb or there is a more elegant solution to it?
> >
> > How about a new README.android which links to the other two and adds
> > your new info?
>
> How about below directory structure:
>
>  u-boot $ tree doc/android
>  doc/android
>  ├── avb2.txt
>  ├── bcb.txt
>  └── fastboot.txt
>

Sounds good

> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Should it default to enabled if avb is used?
> > >
> > > I think at this specific moment in time, 'bcb' is orthogonal (meaning it
> > > is neither a direct, nor a reverse dependency) to any other Android
> > > feature in U-Boot. This could be re-assessed, if platform maintainers
> > > start to rely on 'bcb' in their U-Boot environments on regular basis.
> >
> > OK. Also is there a sandbox driver for this? We should have a test.
>
> Emulating and exposing MMC devices in sandbox should be the only
> prerequisite for sandbox testing and this seems to be already supported
> via drivers/mmc/sandbox_mmc.c. However, to be honest, I was unsuccessful
> bringing up the MMC devices on sandbox in the past. Particularly,
> booting the latest sandbox U-Boot (CMD_MMC=y) I get:
>
> => mmc list
> No MMC device available
>
> I think there is something elementary which I am missing?

Probably need to copy an mmc node over from test.dts to sandbox.dts


>
> Regardless, I need some more days to implement the test and repartition
> the README files. I think Sam would appreciate if you can provide your
> Ack to the series as-is (it was extensively statically and dynamically
> tested on R-Car H3ULCB) and I submit the doc/test updates separately.
> Otherwise, I will push the next revision hopefully in a week or so.

That's OK with me, but let me review it first.

Regards,
Simon


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