[meta-ti] [PATCH] recipe: u-boot: update recipe for more images

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 03:38:03PM -0500, Carlos Hernandez wrote:
> 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.

Correct, but it doesn't support GPH yet, only SPL, AFAIK. Can you look into 
extending it in such a way it can be used for any/all of the use cases easily?

-- 
Denys