Hi Kevin,
I'm a bit late to this party, but have a couple of comments...
On 02/19/2013 08:20 AM, Chaves, Kevin wrote:
Thanks for the response, so the whoosh does not support holding
> a key to get into another image? I guess that won't work.
>
Note that there's already support for key-handling in our
Nitrogen6X code:
https://github.com/boundarydevices/u-boot-imx6/blob/production/board/boundary/nitrogen6x/nitrogen6x.c#L779
So if I wanted to support the SPL on the nitrogent6x
are there any instruction on what requirements it has to
> support it.
The use of SPL seems to be a separate topic.
Is your objective simply a faster boot?
We don't have any specific plans to add SPL support for
Nitrogen6x, but are interested in hearing what you're after.
I'm guessing all the work I'd need to do is in board/boundary/nitrogen6x?
> Also how would I normally configure and build an spl for
> a working board. There is a lot of config options
> in the README for the spl.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alexandre Belloni [mailto:alexandre.bell...@piout.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:00 AM
To: Wolfgang Denk
Cc: Chaves, Kevin; u-boot@lists.denx.de; Dirk Behme
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] imx6, spl and falcon boot
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:35:01PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote :
Dear Alexandre Belloni,
In message <20130219112532.gb24...@piout.net> you wrote:
No, that is not supported and probably won't be. Some people will
argue
I think you are wrong. This is definitely a "not supported _yet_".
that you probably don't need a bootloader once you are able to boot
a linux kernel as you can probably do everything you want from there.
Yes, some people will think so, and some will actually do that.
Others (and I would expect these to be the majority) will realize the
benefits of being able to switch on demand (say, key press, jumper
setting, etc.) between different boot modes, boot images, etc.
I am absolutely sure that SPL support for iMX6 will be added rather
sooner than later.
Yeah, don't misinterpret me, I was just saying that it will not be
> supported in whoosh. I also believe that SPL and falcon mode will
> come to i.mx6 and I'm also interested in getting that support ;)
Whoosh seems pretty compelling with such a small code base.
Does it really boot faster though? Do you have any numbers
for TTP (Time-to-penguin) on a SABRE Lite or SABRE SD?
Regards,
Eric
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