Hi Simon,
On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 11:59 AM Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org wrote:
At present SPL is used on 64-bit platforms, to allow SPL to be built as a 32-bit program and U-Boot proper to be built as 64-bit.
However it is useful to be able to use SPL on any x86 platform, where U-Boot needs to be updated in the field. Then SPL can select which U-Boot to run (A or B) and most of the code can be updated. Similarly, using TPL allows both SPL and U-Boot to be updated. This is the best approach, since it means that all of U-Boot proper as well as SPL (in particular SDRAM init) can be updated in the field. This provides for the smallest possible amount of read-only (non-updateable) code: just the TPL code.
This series contains a number of changes to allow x86 boards to use TPL, SPL and U-Boot proper. As a test, it is enabled for samus with a new chromebook_samus_tpl board.
I've applied 32 patches in this series to u-boot-x86/master. Remaining patches need to rebase on that.
Regards, Bin