[meta-xilinx] Why no support for FSBL?

Bishop, Mark (STRT) MBishop at smithsinterconnectinc.com
Wed Nov 29 07:38:24 PST 2017


Including authentication and encryption chains?

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From: meta-xilinx-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:meta-xilinx-bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Mike Looijmans
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 4:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [meta-xilinx] Why no support for FSBL?

The "open source" way is to avoid the FSBL (and in fact, all of
meta-xilinx-tools) and use u-boot SPL instead. All functionality provided by the fsbl/bootgen flow is provided by u-boot SPL already.


On 20-11-17 22:08, Peter Smith wrote:
> Hi, I’m aware of the meta-xilinx-tools layer, but this needs you to 
> have the Xilinx SDK installed (unless I’m mistaken), I was wondering 
> ion there were any plans to create support in meta-xilinx for building 
> the FSBL without the need for the SDK dependency. Peter
> 
>> On 20 Nov 2017, at 21:05, Giordon Stark <kratsg at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:kratsg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi (resending from right address),
>>
>> You can indeed build the FSBL + boot.bin using the meta-xilinx-tools layer: 
>> https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-xilinx-tools
>>
>> Giordon
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 3:03 PM Peter Smith <salerio at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:salerio at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     A question, I was wondering why there is no support for building FSBL in
>>     a similar way to that provided by meta-xilinx for the PMU firmware, is
>>     there a technical reason or is it just one of those things that has not
>>     yet been got around to? Thanks in advance Peter.
>>     --
>>     

Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
System Expert

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