[Binman] Question regarding SPL symbol offsets generation

Adam Ford aford173 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 3 00:06:23 CEST 2024


On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 3:04 AM Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 12:47, Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Lukasz,
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 5:14 PM Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx.de>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Unfortunately not - this change is only for properly setting start
> > > > address of the u-boot.
> > > >
> > > > The _real_ problem here is the symbol placement generated by
> > > > binman when we try to define the image as a single one.
> > > >
> > > > Moreover, this change follows other boards with imx8mm processor -
> > > > ./configs/imx8mm_beacon_fspi_defconfig to be specific.
> > > >
> > > > The "fix" (for which I'd been now probably opt) for this issue
> > > > would be to generate two images with binman - one for
> > > > u-boot-spl-ddr.bin and the final flash.bin with the former one
> > > > included (as it was before SHA1:
> > > > 37e50627efacd8dae18b564e9d8886a033e181bc)
> > >
> > > Is QSPI boot broken on i.MX8MM?
> > >
> > > I am adding Adam and Mamta who have tested QSPI booting on
> > > imx8mm_beacon and imx8mm_evk, respectively.
> >
> > Note also that I sent a series[1] which allows the symbols-base to be
> > adjusted, if that helps.
>
> I've seen them - but not yet tested.
>
> Thanks Simon for the patch series.

Is it still broken with this patch series?  I have been traveling and
haven't had much time to test.

adam
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Simon
> >
> > [1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/list/?series=421010
>
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lukasz Majewski
>
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