On 30/04/19 19:08, Jagan Teki wrote: > 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.
No problem ;-) - there are so many new features / targets in U-Boot, I think I know just a small percentage of them.. ;-) > >> >> 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. Best regards, Stefano -- ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-53 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: sba...@denx.de ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot