[PATCH v1] imx: mkimage_fit_atf: replace @ with hyphen

Heiko Thiery heiko.thiery at gmail.com
Fri Aug 13 14:52:55 CEST 2021


Hi,

Am Fr., 13. Aug. 2021 um 14:34 Uhr schrieb Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> [Adding Marek]
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 6:53 PM Tim Harvey <tharvey at gateworks.com> wrote:
>
> > With respect to moving to binman, I'm all for it but I'm wondering why
> > other boards have elected to move from a monolithic flash.bin
> > including the SPL and u-boot.itb pre-binman to post-binman where
> > flash.bin is just the SPL. I'm not sure why users should be hit with a
> > change like that... why are people not having binman produce a
> > flash.bin that was equivalent to pre-binman?
>
> Yes, fully agree.
>
> Peng,
>
> After the adoption of binman, both flash.bin and u-boot.itb need to be
> flashed to the boot media.
>
> This breaks user experience, distro integration, etc, which is not good.
>
> Can we have binman generate a single bootable flash.bin binary (which
> contains flash.bin + u-boot.itb) again
> to keep compatibility and avoid breakage?

Maybe I'm wrong or I do not fully understand the limitation you're
talking about, but as far as I understand the output (flash.bin) from
the ronetix board [1] was generated using binman and includes all
necessary parts. Is this right?

[1] https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/blob/master/arch/arm/dts/imx8mq-cm-u-boot.dtsi


-- 
Heiko


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