[PATCH 0/4] ARM: meson: Add boot over DFU RAM as an USB boot step

Ferass El Hafidi vitali64pmemail at protonmail.com
Mon Oct 23 15:04:11 CEST 2023


Hi,

> Add boot over DFU RAM as an alternate to running script at
> a fixed address like done today.
>
> The main culprit is that it's not possible to do that
> on G12A/SM1 platforms due to changes in the USB boot protocol.
>
> With this, U-Boot will present a DFU device with a ram slot where
> the Host could write a fitImage or legacy U-Boot image, then with the
> detach command boot will continue trying to boot the uploaded image.
>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong at linaro.org>

Nice to see this! Next step would be to have this in U-Boot SPLin
Amlogic SoCs in the future. I'm tempted to implement this in my tree
before sending SPL support for (some) Amlogic SoCs upstream.

Cheers.



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