On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:25:05 -0700 "Xie Shaohui-B21989" <b21...@freescale.com> wrote:
> From: Wood Scott-B07421 > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 5:55 AM > To: Wolfgang Denk > Cc: Xie Shaohui-B21989; u-boot@lists.denx.de; Gala Kumar-B11780 > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2][v2] Add readme of how to boot from > espi flash for p4080ds. > > > Yes, a simple C tool to take an existing PBL or RCW dump and "espi-ize" > it into a PBL dump would be nice. The user will still need to acquire > the existing RCW manually. This only needs to be done once on a board; > it's not part of building a U-Boot image. > > > > > [Xie Shaohui] A simple C tool will make things more complex, the > pbl_image_tool does the same thing It doesn't do the same thing for poeple who don't have access to it. Plus, requiring the user to do a bunch of manual stuff is not "the same thing" as something more automated. More work for us upfront is not the same as "more complex". > and it is irreplaceable, Tell that to the people trying to replace it with some big Eclipse-based thing. :-) > something like RCW has to be produced manually, and because there is no > near-universal default RCW, this README took a basic assumption that > user already can boot from NOR flash, so user can reuse the RCW dump of > NOR u-boot with change "PBI_SRC" and "BOOT_LOC" only. Yes. But once the user provides an RCW, everything else should be automatable. -Scott _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot