Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 1/3] sunxi: Extend SPL header versioning

2018-05-17 Thread Andre Przywara
Hi, On 17/05/18 12:05, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2018 09:16:59 +0100 > Andre Przywara wrote: > >> On Allwinner SoCs we use some free bytes at the beginning of the SPL image >> to store various information. We have a version byte to allow updates, >> but changing this always requi

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 1/3] sunxi: Extend SPL header versioning

2018-05-17 Thread Icenowy Zheng
于 2018年5月17日 GMT+08:00 下午7:05:15, Siarhei Siamashka 写到: >On Thu, 17 May 2018 09:16:59 +0100 >Andre Przywara wrote: > >> On Allwinner SoCs we use some free bytes at the beginning of the SPL >image >> to store various information. We have a version byte to allow >updates, >> but changing this al

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 1/3] sunxi: Extend SPL header versioning

2018-05-17 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Thu, 17 May 2018 09:16:59 +0100 Andre Przywara wrote: > On Allwinner SoCs we use some free bytes at the beginning of the SPL image > to store various information. We have a version byte to allow updates, > but changing this always requires all tools to be updated as well. The tools do not nee

[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 1/3] sunxi: Extend SPL header versioning

2018-05-17 Thread Andre Przywara
On Allwinner SoCs we use some free bytes at the beginning of the SPL image to store various information. We have a version byte to allow updates, but changing this always requires all tools to be updated as well. Introduce the concept of semantic versioning [1] to the SPL header: The major part of