On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 10:30 PM Stefano Babic <sba...@denx.de> wrote: > > On 30/04/19 18:56, Jagan Teki wrote: > > Hi Stefano, > > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 9:36 PM Stefano Babic <sba...@denx.de> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Shyam, > >> > >> On 30/04/19 12:33, Shyam Saini wrote: > >>> IMX6 platform has two stage boot loaders like SPL and > >>> U-Boot proper. For each stage we need to burn the image > >>> on to flash with respective offsets. > >>> > >>> This patch create a single image using binman, so that > >>> user can get rid of burning different stage boot images. > >>> > >>> without this patch: > >>> ------------------ > >>> $ sudo dd if=SPL of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1k seek=1 > >>> $ sudo dd if=u-boot-dtb.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1k seek=69 > >>> > >>> with this patch: > >>> --------------- > >>> $ sudo dd if=u-boot-imx6-with-spl.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1k seek=1 > >>> > >> > >> I am quite confused. There is already a "u-boot-with-spl.imx" target, > >> this works since a lot of time. Which is the reason to duplicate this > >> feature or where is the difference ? > > > > At-least I did noticed this now, since it require explicit 'make > > u-boot-with-spl.bin' I hardly unaware before this been available for > > i.mx6. > > > > But, this binman feature more extensible than the Makefile oriented > > and the same been adopting by many platforms. May be we can come-up > > with common solution with binman, what do you think? > > First, I would like to avoid to have the same feature implemented > multiple times in different ways.
As I said, we didn't know this was supported before since it require an explicit argument to build..it's our bad. > > If we can get the same solution for all platform, fine. But I guess i.MX > is not the only one having such as target, socFPGA has the same solution. Okay. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot