Hi Stefan, On Thursday, April 25, 2013 2:48:59 PM, Stefan Roese wrote: > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 6/6] arm: mx5: Add support for DENX M53EVK > > On 25.04.2013 14:38, Marek Vasut wrote: > >>> Right, this is also correct. Anyway, BOOT_FROM is used to get the offset > >>> inside the storage, and only to be as much flexible as possible, each > >>> storage has defined its own offset. However, Freescale uses the same > >>> offset (0x400) for most storages (NAND, SD..) and another one for NOR or > >>> OneNAND (0x1000). Maybe it is easier to have only this two cases. > >> > >> Yes, I would prefer that. > >> > >> And being at it, why don't we add the offset to the resulting image as > >> well? This would make programming the images to the destination (SD, > >> NAND, MMC etc) easier. We would not have to care for the correct offset > >> then (which is more error prone). And it is necessary btw, to have this > >> offset added, when using the FSL kobs-ng tool to program the image to > >> NAND flash. > > > > This would interfere with MBR on SD cards, the offset is there for a reason > > ;-) > > Yes, makes sense. But only for SD cards. On other mediums (e.g. SPI NOR, > NAND) this padded image would be easier (less error prone) to handle.
For NAND, we already have u-boot-with-nand-spl.imx. For SPI NOR, something similar could be done, or this could be done by imximage. Best regards, Benoît _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot