Hi Tim!
BTW: Thanks for all your work on this. Great work and really appreciated.
Just a quick note:
On 24.04.2014 10:06, Tim Harvey wrote:
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If I were to split the partitions like the above change, it will cause some grief for existing users that are using the 3.0.35 (non device-tree) vendor kernel that has the mtd partitions hard coded in the board support. Instead, I decided to patch the kobs-ng application used to flash the SPL so that it can be passed a max size to use within /dev/mtd0 and users that need to upgrade to the SPL bootloader will need to use that patched kobs-ng to flash the SPL to the first 14MB, then use std mtd utils to flash u-boot.img in the area between 14M and 16M.
Don't forget, at some point soon I hope to add some functionality to u-boot to flash the SPL portion to nand (the way kobs-ng does) so that you don't need to boot to linux and use kobs-ng or use our JTAG tool.
For such a functionality it might make sense to take a look at what has been recently added to barebox:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.barebox/12612 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.barebox/12856
Thanks, Stefan