Hi,
Am Fr., 13. Aug. 2021 um 14:34 Uhr schrieb Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com:
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?
Maybe I'm wrong or I do not fully understand the limitation you're talking about, but as far as I understand the output (flash.bin) from the ronetix board [1] was generated using binman and includes all necessary parts. Is this right?
[1] https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/blob/master/arch/arm/dts/imx8mq-cm-u-...