On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 at 09:21, Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]> wrote: > > On a real device, the boot ROM contains the very first instructions the CPU > executes. Also, U-Boot calls into the ROM to determine the boot device. While > we're not actually implementing this here, let's create the infrastructure and > add a dummy ROM with all zeros. This allows for implementing a ROM later > without > touching the source code and even allows for users to provide their own ROMs. > > The imx8mp-boot.rom was created with > `dd if=/dev/zero of=imx8mp-boot.rom bs=1 count=258048`.
If it's all zeroes, we don't need to commit it to git as a binary, we can generate it at build time. (We should avoid having binaries in git as much as we can manage.) thanks -- PMM
