Re: [U-Boot] QE firmware/microcode handling

2012-09-20 Thread McClintock Matthew-B29882
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Timur Tabi wrote: > Scott Wood wrote: >> The 512K limit is arbitrary and can be changed. It exists just to >> provide a stable start address on something that grows from the end of >> flash. > > True, but we haven't actually done changed it. Instead of allowing f

Re: [U-Boot] QE firmware/microcode handling

2012-09-20 Thread Timur Tabi
Scott Wood wrote: > The 512K limit is arbitrary and can be changed. It exists just to > provide a stable start address on something that grows from the end of > flash. True, but we haven't actually done changed it. Instead of allowing for a larger u-boot.bin, we have ALWAYS disabled features

Re: [U-Boot] QE firmware/microcode handling

2012-09-20 Thread Scott Wood
On 09/20/2012 10:22:21 AM, Timur Tabi wrote: Gerlando Falauto wrote: > Hi everyone, > > following up Timur's patch on QE microcode: > > http://marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=132197537730440&w=2 > > I was wondering, would it make any sense to *embed* QE's firmware within > u-boot image itself? There ar

Re: [U-Boot] QE firmware/microcode handling

2012-09-20 Thread Timur Tabi
Gerlando Falauto wrote: > Hi everyone, > > following up Timur's patch on QE microcode: > > http://marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=132197537730440&w=2 > > I was wondering, would it make any sense to *embed* QE's firmware within > u-boot image itself? There are three problems: 1) A lot of U-Boot images a

Re: [U-Boot] QE firmware/microcode handling

2012-09-20 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Gerlando Falauto, In message <505ae6c3.5080...@keymile.com> you wrote: > > following up Timur's patch on QE microcode: > > http://marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=132197537730440&w=2 > > I was wondering, would it make any sense to *embed* QE's firmware within > u-boot image itself? It's a matter of

[U-Boot] QE firmware/microcode handling

2012-09-20 Thread Gerlando Falauto
Hi everyone, following up Timur's patch on QE microcode: http://marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=132197537730440&w=2 I was wondering, would it make any sense to *embed* QE's firmware within u-boot image itself? After all, it should be some ~64KB worth of data, right? Not quite sure whether this has ever