[PATCH 12/18] include: armv7: Enable distroboot across all configs

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 07:45, Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com> wrote:
>
> On 13:39-20230717, Manorit Chawdhry wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > > +
> > > > +#define BOOT_TARGET_DEVICES(func) \
> > > > +       BOOT_TARGET_MMC(func) \
> > > > +       BOOT_TARGET_USB(func) \
> > > > +       BOOT_TARGET_PXE(func) \
> > > > +       BOOT_TARGET_DHCP(func)
> > > > +
> > > > +#include <config_distro_bootcmd.h>
> > >
> > > With standard boot you should be able to drop all of the above, since
> > > the normal order is mmc, usb, pxe, dhcp by default. But you can add a
> > > "boot_targets" env var if you like.
> > >
> > > The one exception is TI_MMC. What is that, exactly?
> > >
> >
> > TI_MMC is our custom boot mechanism that we actually support as a part
> > of our SDK, we had been using this in am62ax like the way I have done
> > here, am not really sure why we hooked it into the distroboot if that is
> > the question that you are asking, maybe Nishanth/Bryan can help with
> > that as Bryan had done it for am62ax [0] but we do this boot mechanism
> > for sure.
> >
> > [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20221224011525.4696-5-bb@ti.com/
> >
>
> 2 cents:
> There is no reason for us to have our own TI_MMC option. we should just
> go standard_boot. all the SDK stuff really should be fixed if they dont
> work with standard_boot.

If for some reason you do need something special, it could be
implemented as a new bootmeth, as has been done for ChromeOS.

Regards,
Simon