[meta-ti] [PATCH] recipe: u-boot: update recipe for more images
Carlos Hernandez
ceh at ti.com
Tue Feb 26 12:38:03 PST 2013
On 02/26/2013 03:26 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On 02/26/2013 03:12 PM, Cyril Chemparathy wrote:
>> On 02/26/2013 02:53 PM, Murali Karicheri wrote:
>>> + Cyril,
>>>
>>> Cyril had worked on adding GPH format for u-boot. Want to hear from him
>>> why not used the u-boot-with-spl.bin build target.
>>>
>> Because u-boot-with-spl.bin does not wrap the spl image with a header
>> that the rom bootloader understands.
> What is the header we need? I assume it's not compatible with our
> previous headers. And if it's just a convenience for programming the
> flash, maybe we just stick with two files, to avoid further headaches
> upstream? It's a general rule that concatenating files would make
> programming easier, but it's a small savings on either end, yes? This
> would also make the packaging easier since it would just be
> SPL_IMAGE_FILE (or whatever) set to u-boot-spl.gph and so forth. Thanks!
>
I believe this is what the patch I submitted (to meta-arago) few days
ago do.
You need to define SPL_UART_BINARY in your recipe to enable the extra
do_install and do_deploy functionality.
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