[PATCH v2 2/2] board: imx8mp: add boot.cmd for distro boot on iMX8MP

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi Stefano,

I really do not think that this patch should have been merged. It is
not the preferred way to boot distros and is left in for legacy
support only.  We probably should make it as such.

Dennis

On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 9:53 AM <sbabic at denx.de> wrote:
>
> > From: Alice Guo <alice.guo at nxp.com>
> > Distro Boot requires a U-Boot-specific script named boot.scr or
> > boot.scr.uimg which contains boot commands to boot the system. The
> > boot.cmd is such a file. Use mkimage to generate boot.scr or
> > boot.scr.uimg from boot.cmd, and the command is:
> > mkimage -A arm -O linux -T script -C none -a 0 -e 0 -n "Distro Boot Script" -d boot.cmd boot.scr.uimg
> > The boot.cmd file is an example script and can be modified based on
> > needs. bootargs is set in this script and root uses the default value
> > "/dev/mmcblk1p2 rootwait rw" which can be changed by overriding mmcroot.
> > Signed-off-by: Alice Guo <alice.guo at nxp.com>
> Applied to u-boot-imx, master, thanks !
>
> Best regards,
> Stefano Babic
>
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