Hi Benoît,
On 25.04.2013 14:49, Benoît Thébaudeau wrote:
Yes, I would prefer that.
And being at it, why don't we add the offset to the resulting image as well? This would make programming the images to the destination (SD, NAND, MMC etc) easier. We would not have to care for the correct offset then (which is more error prone). And it is necessary btw, to have this offset added, when using the FSL kobs-ng tool to program the image to NAND flash.
This would interfere with MBR on SD cards, the offset is there for a reason ;-)
Yes, makes sense. But only for SD cards. On other mediums (e.g. SPI NOR, NAND) this padded image would be easier (less error prone) to handle.
For NAND, we already have u-boot-with-nand-spl.imx.
I'm thinking more about NAND on iMX6. Which doesn't support SPL (until now). We could add a new build target for imx6 for NAND booting as well. Not sure if this is better moved to a build target or to the imximage generation tool?
For SPI NOR, something similar could be done, or this could be done by imximage.
Yes. Perhaps its best to add this to imximage.
Thanks, Stefan