[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/7] boot/uboot: compute CRC on SPLs for Altera SoC FPGA

Jan Viktorin viktorin at rehivetech.com
Wed Mar 23 13:10:40 UTC 2016


On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:06:32 +0100
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:57:41 +0100, Jan Viktorin wrote:
> 
> > I am surprise a bit by applying those quite old patchs. I've forgotten
> > about this patch series entirely. I am afraid, they've fixed this in
> > U-Boot upstream (2016.01?) by generating *.sfp files. I was testing
> > this some time ago with:
> > 
> > BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_FORMAT_DTB_IMG=y                                               
> > BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_SPL=y                                                          
> > BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_SPL_NAME="spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.sfp"
> > 
> > and it seems to work. I didn't have time to sync this with Buildroot
> > upstream, sorry.  
> 
> No problem. Before applying, I looked in U-Boot if there was a tool
> called mkpimage, and there wasn't, so I assumed it was still needed.
> 
> In this case, could you send some follow-up patches that revert the
> changes that are no longer needed, and that update the two Altera
> defconfigs to use newer U-Boot versions that have this capability?

I'll be happy to do it if I find some time for this.

Jan

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Thomas



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   Jan Viktorin                  E-mail: Viktorin at RehiveTech.com
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