Hi Tim,
[Adding Marek]
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 6:53 PM Tim Harvey tharvey@gateworks.com wrote:
With respect to moving to binman, I'm all for it but I'm wondering why other boards have elected to move from a monolithic flash.bin including the SPL and u-boot.itb pre-binman to post-binman where flash.bin is just the SPL. I'm not sure why users should be hit with a change like that... why are people not having binman produce a flash.bin that was equivalent to pre-binman?
Yes, fully agree.
Peng,
After the adoption of binman, both flash.bin and u-boot.itb need to be flashed to the boot media.
This breaks user experience, distro integration, etc, which is not good.
Can we have binman generate a single bootable flash.bin binary (which contains flash.bin + u-boot.itb) again to keep compatibility and avoid breakage?
Thanks,
Fabio Estevam
Best regards,
Tim