Am 17. Februar 2025 13:28:42 UTC schrieb Peter Maydell
<[email protected]>:
>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.)
I went with this solution since it trivially works on any build platform. Any
idea how to generate the file in a portable way?
Thanks,
Bernhard
>
>thanks
>-- PMM
