[PATCH 2/8] boot: fix prompt for SPL_LOAD_FIT_ADDRESS

Kumar, Udit u-kumar1 at ti.com
Mon Dec 15 15:21:16 CET 2025


Hi Quentin,

On 12/15/2025 4:20 PM, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> Hi Kumar,
>
> On 12/13/25 8:05 AM, Kumar, Udit wrote:
>>
>> On 12/12/2025 11:43 PM, Quentin Schulz wrote:
>>> From: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz at cherry.de>
>>>
>>> The prompt is missing the indication this applies for the SPL loading
>>> a FIT image, and not any other stage.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz at cherry.de>
>>> ---
>>>   boot/Kconfig | 2 +-
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/boot/Kconfig b/boot/Kconfig
>>> index 85f4d468069..07ae6cc585a 100644
>>> --- a/boot/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/boot/Kconfig
>>> @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ config SPL_LOAD_FIT
>>>            "linux" images are also supported with Falcon boot mode.
>>>   config SPL_LOAD_FIT_ADDRESS
>>> -    hex "load address of fit image"
>>> +    hex "load address of fit image in SPL"
>>
>> SPL_LOAD_FIT_ADDRESS, itself indicate that this is for SPL, no ?
>>
>
> You only have this information if you enter the help menu of the 
> symbol, the user will not know it applies to SPL if they don't enter 
> the menu (and they would have to infer this from the name like you 
> just did, which not necessarily everybody is aware is a thing). 


i assume , user are aware of how u-boot works :)

Anyway thanks for adding clarity.

Reviewed-by: Udit Kumar <u-kumar1 at ti.com>


> Honestly, I read that prompt and thought it was a way to configure 
> loadaddr environment variable or something like that, wouldn't have 
> imagined this is related to falcon boot (mostly from what I could tell).
>
> Cheers,
> Quentin


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