How to modify defconfig file - make savedefconfig?

2022-01-27 Thread Grant Edwards
What is the "right" way to modify a defconfig file? Most sources I've found just say things like "edit the defconfig file". That seems error-prone -- especially when dealing with settings that have side effects. I did stumble across one mention of "make savedefconfig", and this seems to be the

Re: Compile only changed files when doing 'make'?

2022-01-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-01-25, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm working on a Renesas supplied port of U-Boot, and it seems that > 'make' always compiles every single (configured) source file instead > compiling only the source files that have been changed since the > previous 'make'. This pro

Compile only changed files when doing 'make'?

2022-01-25 Thread Grant Edwards
I'm working on a Renesas supplied port of U-Boot, and it seems that 'make' always compiles every single (configured) source file instead compiling only the source files that have been changed since the previous 'make'. I've never run into this before on projects that use 'make', and it makes

[U-Boot] Combine zImage and rootfs in single uImage

2012-05-22 Thread Grant Edwards
bootloaders will detect any extra bytes after the end of the zImage data and assume that they are a rootfs image. Is that how U-Boot does it? I just cat the ziminage and rootfs.cpio.gz files together and then prepend a uImage header? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I selected

Re: [U-Boot] Combine zImage and rootfs in single uImage

2012-05-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-05-22, Wolfgang Denk w...@denx.de wrote: In message jpgbbm$1hk$1...@dough.gmane.org Grant Edwards wrote: [...] somebody told me that if I was using U-Boot, I could build the zImage and rootfs separately and then combine them into a single uImage file for distribution. The (deprecated

Re: [U-Boot] Combine zImage and rootfs in single uImage

2012-05-22 Thread Grant Edwards
for that for a while... Thanks again, -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Will it improve my at CASH FLOW? gmail.com ___ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot

Re: [U-Boot] OT Flashing high volume of devices

2010-11-18 Thread Grant Edwards
documentation or procedure to do that? Send the hex file to the flash distributor and have them do it. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm meditating on at the FORMALDEHYDE and the gmail.com

Re: [U-Boot] [WIP] tools/env: cleanup host build flags

2010-11-10 Thread Grant Edwards
the compiler with the proper flags. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Are we THERE yet? at gmail.com ___ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot

Re: [U-Boot] FW: which protocol do I use to send S-record files when using the loads command ?

2010-08-23 Thread Grant Edwards
of server? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! If I pull this SWITCH at I'll be RITA HAYWORTH!! gmail.comOr a SCIENTOLOGIST! ___ U-Boot

Re: [U-Boot] FW: which protocol do I use to send S-record files when using the loads command ?

2010-08-23 Thread Grant Edwards
a stand-alone addition except for 3-4 lines in net.[ch]). But it was made abundantly clear that tftp server code for U-Boot would never be considered -- I was scolded for even asking about it. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Life is a POPULARITY

Re: [U-Boot] FW: which protocol do I use to send S-record files when using the loads command ?

2010-08-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-08-23, Ben Warren biggerbadder...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/23/2010 2:10 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: Now that you mention it, I have implemented a tftp server for U-Boot. We needed a way to recover bricked units in the field, and there's simply no way we could require out customers

Re: [U-Boot] FW: which protocol do I use to send S-record files when using the loads command ?

2010-08-23 Thread Grant Edwards
of effort not to at least post your (working!) implementation here and thus (at least) get it archieved. In Free Software written code always has the potential to change minds ;) OK, I'll clean it up and post it. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! People humiliating

Re: [U-Boot] handling of bad blocks in nand

2010-08-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-08-16, Scott Wood scottw...@freescale.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 09:22:21PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: At one point in the legacy NAND code, a distinction was made when reading between completely skipping bad blocks, and filling the buffer with zeroes in place of the bad

Re: [U-Boot] handling of bad blocks in nand

2010-08-13 Thread Grant Edwards
a feeling that's not right (though it seems to work, I suspect it's not going to skip bad blocks). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hello, GORRY-O!! at I'm a GENIUS from HARVARD!! gmail.com

Re: [U-Boot] handling of bad blocks in nand

2010-08-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-08-13, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2010-07-09, Scott Wood scottw...@freescale.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 08:56:40AM -0400, Ben Gardiner wrote: If you are putting an MTD filesystem in that partition then the filesystem itself will take care of bad blocks

[U-Boot] How to download image to U-Boot

2009-11-17 Thread Grant Edwards
you have to know a-priori the address of the machine from which you want to use it. It would seem that you have to force the customer to change the IP address of their machine (not acceptible). -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Thank god!! ... It's

Re: [U-Boot] How to download image to U-Boot

2009-11-17 Thread Grant Edwards
such features. Thanks. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Am I SHOPLIFTING? at visi.com ___ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http