On 10/09/2012 14:27, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hello, > Hi Thomas,
>> Exactly. The ROM does not understand a filesystem, and the SPL must be >> stored at a fixed address in the SD card. The filename does not matter, >> and the SPL is not seen as file, but as a raw image. >> >>> I'm fine >>> with the change now, just looking for the full details. Thanks! >> >> As for Freescale the filename does not matter while for TI does, we can >> use for both MLO ;-) > > Then in that case I would precisely *not* use the same filename, in > order to make it clear that Freescale SPL cannot be used in the same > way as the TI SPL. Naming it MLO will certainly confuse users having > previous experience with TI stuff: it will lead them to believe that > creating a FAT filesystem and putting the MLO file in it will be the > necessary steps to get this SPL loaded by the ROM code. Of couse, setting a common name is not a reason enough for the users to not read the manual ;-). The way TI and Freescale have chosen to boot their SOCs are and remain quite differently. The reason to have a common name is to avoid to document for each SOC which is the binary result. Maybe a more neutral name as "SPL" instead of "MLO" ? This is the first attempt to set SPL for a not-TI SOC, but hopefully other SOCs will follow, and it is better to set already some simple rules, In any case, the resulting binary is a different thing as how to put the binary into the target: SPL can be copied as MLO on the SD-Card. Tom, what do you think ? Best regards, Stefano -- ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-53 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: sba...@denx.de ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
