[PATCH v3] xload: get barebox size from barebox_arm_head

Jan Weitzel J.Weitzel at phytec.de
Tue Sep 4 08:27:24 EDT 2012


Am Dienstag, den 04.09.2012, 11:28 +0200 schrieb Sascha Hauer:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 09:34:22AM +0200, Jan Weitzel wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 29.08.2012, 14:21 +0200 schrieb Jean-Christophe
> > > > +unsigned int get_image_size(void *head)
> > > > +{
> > > > +	unsigned int ret = 0;
> > > > +	unsigned int *psize = head + HEAD_SIZE_OFFSET;
> > > > +	const char *pmagic = head + HEAD_MAGICWORD_OFFSET;
> > > > +
> > > > +	if (!strcmp(pmagic, "barebox"))
> > > > +		ret = *psize;
> > > > +	debug("Detected barebox image size %u\n", ret);
> > > factorise the code with filetype
> > What exactly do you mean? I could factorise it by boot source (mmc / nand) with complete omap_xload_boot_nand.
> 
> He means that you should use file_detect_type() To detect whether it's a
> barebox image.
> I'm unsure I share this opinion. After detecting that it's a barebox
> file you have to look into the header anyway to get the actual size.
I wasn't aware of this function. I would like to avoid adding
CONFIG_FILETYPE to MLO config.
Jan
> Sascha
> 





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