On 11/29/2016 07:18 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:50:34AM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote: >> On 11/29/2016 10:11 AM, Lukasz Majewski wrote: >>> Hi Marek, >>> >>>> On 11/28/2016 10:09 PM, Lukasz Majewski wrote: >>>>> This define gives the possibility to copy entire image (including >>>>> header - e.g. u-boot.img) from NOR parallel memory to e.g. SDRAM. >>>>> The current code only supports loading the raw binary image (the >>>>> u-boot.bin). >>>>> >>>>> The legacy behavior is preserved, since other board don't enabled >>>>> this option. >>>> >>>> Sooooo, what's the usecase again ? ;-) >>> >>> :-) >>> >>> The use case is to allow u-boot.img being loaded from Parallel NOR. The >>> current code only supports u-boot.bin. >> >> Why is u-boot.bin (or the payload) not sufficient ? Why do you need the >> header ? > > Well, the general use-case and code flow is that we load u-boot.img (or > a FIT image) and if all else fails, fall back to assuming a .bin and a > known address). > And exactly how is that whole image useful in RAM ? Sorry, I still do not see it, usually you just need the executable payload, although even that can be left in flash most of the time.
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