Hi Murali, On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:42:14 -0500, Murali Karicheri <m-kariche...@ti.com> wrote:
> On 2/10/2014 1:01 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote: > > Hi Murali, > > > > On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:22:53 -0500, Murali Karicheri > > <m-kariche...@ti.com> wrote: > > > >> On 2/10/2014 3:32 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote: > >>> Hi Murali, > >>> > >>> On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 18:23:07 -0500, Murali Karicheri > >>> <m-kariche...@ti.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> - Resending since I missed some in the CC > >>>> > >>>> This patch series add support for keystone2 SoC and K2HK EVM. > >>>> > >>>> Following patches were reviewed before in this list and v1 of the > >>>> same is send with review comments incorporated:- > >>>> - tools: mkimage: add support for gpimage format > >>>> - arm: add support for arch timer > >>>> - NAND: DaVinci: allow forced disable of subpage writes > >>>> > >>>> The patch below is added as a seperate patch based on comments:- > >>>> - tools: sort the entries in Makefile > >>>> > >>>> Murali Karicheri (5): > >>>> tools: sort the entries in Makefile > >>>> tools: mkimage: add support for gpimage format > >>> Is this image format required? Can't one of the existing image formats > >>> be used? > >> Alebert, > >> > >> Thanks for your response. > >> > >> We are actually re-using part of the OMAP image format by factoring out > >> the common code > >> and re-using. So this is not a new format. Please review the code. > > Thanks. This describes what you do and how you do it, but it does not > > tell me why you are doing it and why you can't do otherwise. Let me > > rephrase my question since you're mentioning branching off the OMAP > > image format: why branch off? Why not simply use the existing OMAP image > > format? Or another one? > Because the ROM bootloader in our platform (keystone2) expect the header > to be in > the following format :- > > <size - 4 byte> <load addr- 4 byte> <data> > > OMAP uses different format > <omap header 512 bytes> <size - 4 byte> <load addr - 4 bytes> > > gp header (size, loadaddr) is common between the two image formats. So that > is factored out and used in our platform. Hope this is clear now. Ok, thanks. > Regards, > > Murali Amicalement, -- Albert. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
