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

Heiko Thiery heiko.thiery at gmail.com
Mon Aug 16 08:01:36 CEST 2021


HI Fabrio and all,

Am Fr., 13. Aug. 2021 um 17:12 Uhr schrieb Heiko Thiery
<heiko.thiery at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi Fabio,
>
> Am Fr., 13. Aug. 2021 um 15:03 Uhr schrieb Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hi Heiko,
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 9:53 AM Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > Building the imx8mq_cm_defconfig generates flash.bin + u-boot.itb.
> >
> > If you only flash flash.bin, then you don't have a bootable system as
> > flash.bin contains only the SPL part.
> >
> > Prior to using binman, we could boot the i.MX8M boards by flashing
> > only flash.bin.
> >
> > I would like to preserver the pre-U-Boot 2021.07, where only flash.bin
> > was needed.
>
> I had taken the binman configuration from imx8mq_cm_defconfig and
> adapted it for my board (kontron-pitx-imx8m). I had copied the
> flash.bin image to my SD card and am of the opinion that this had
> started afterwards with the current u-boot. Unfortunately I can test
> it only next week again, because I currently have no device at hand.

You were right. I probably still had the old data from u-boot.itb on
the SD card and therefore the board still started correctly.

But I also think that the flash.bin should have the complete content
(spl + u-boot.itb) so that the board starts correctly.

Sorry for the noise.
-- 
Heiko


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