On Friday, November 27, 2015 at 01:07:23 PM, Chin Liang See wrote: > On Fri, 2015-11-27 at 11:20 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote: > > On Friday, November 27, 2015 at 02:34:27 AM, Chin Liang See wrote: > > > Hi Marek, > > > > > > On Fri, 2015-11-27 at 02:27 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote: > > > > On Friday, November 27, 2015 at 02:24:49 AM, Chin Liang See > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Hi Pavel, > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 15:43 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > > > > > > Adding new environment qspiload which will load zImage and > > > > > > > Linux DTB from serial NOR flash. The default flash offset > > > > > > > for > > > > > > > the images as below and they are configurable during run > > > > > > > time. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > - zImage located at 0xa0000 with assuming file size 6MB > > > > > > > - Linux DTB located at 0x50000 with assuming file size 28kB > > > > > > > > > > > > Hmm. Ok, zImage second, so that it can grow. Makes sense. Not > > > > > > sure if > > > > > > 28kB is not a bit small for DTB. I'd reserve at least 64kB. > > > > > > > > > > Yup, it can grow up to 64kB as the size for a sector. We used > > > > > 28KB > > > > > mainly for boot time performance. > > > > > > > > So why don't you use UBI on the QSPI NOR ? That way, you'd secure > > > > the > > > > binaries against bitrot as well. > > > > > > Good point. Its a nice enhancement as we were using raw access for > > > the > > > images in NAND and QSPI. Will add a new command for fs support once > > > we > > > enable the ubifs support in socfpga > > > > Why can't this be enabled now then ? > > Mainly for backward compatibility as customer might have their own > script on programming a blank flash in production. This is the same > where we can do mmc load or a load (with file system).
Does that imply that we will have to get stuck in the past because some random customer of some random company might have a random script somewhere? :) Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
