commit 787f04bb6a - imx: add USB2_BOOT type

[Rasmus Villemoes]

On 26/10/2022 01.42, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 18/10/2022 02.43, Peng Fan wrote:
>> + Stefano & Fabio
>>
> 
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any chance you could make some information on that ROM API
>>>>> public so it's possible for outsiders to understand what's going on?
>>
>> What could only help is to ask the ROM team to see whether they have
>> plan to public the ROM API details and when. Otherwise you could only
>> read the code to understand how it works.
>>
>>>>
>>>> Could you please try below changes to check whether it fixes your issue?
>>>
>>> Well, it seems very likely it would, but could you _please_ answer the
>>> real question so we as a community has a chance of evaluating whether
>>> that's the proper fix or something else entirely is needed. And so that
>>> in the future we as a community would have a chance of objecting to
>>> including 787f04bb6a in the first place.
>>
>> You could help reviewing if you have time.
> 
> Don't you see the absurdity of on the one hand saying that the only way
> to understand the ROM API is to study the U-Boot side of the code, and
> on the other hand asking others to review changes to said code?
> 
> If the API could be understood from merely reading existing U-Boot code,
> than that code is by definition perfect and won't need to be changed.
> 
> Now that I know there is a dedicated ROM team, let me rephrase:
> 
> Is there any chance you could reach out to said ROM team and ask if they
> could make some information on the API public?
> 
> [The "you" in the previous questions have always meant NXP, not you
> personally.]

And here we are, half a year later, and mainline U-Boot is still broken.

I'm not gonna offer a tested-by or reviewed-by on that patch you
suggested upthread until and unless the ROM API gets documented.

Rasmus