[PATCH 2/7] scripts: new kwbimage manipulation tool for Marvell SoC boot images

[Jason Cooper]

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 04:04:39PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 16:06 Mon 06 May     , Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,
> > 
> > On Mon, 6 May 2013 15:54:35 +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > > Could you please adopt a nicer language? You are very aggressive... and
> > > > at that the same time completely wrong. Your comments make it entirely
> > > > clear that you haven't even read the comments at the top of file.
> > > I did but still think we can handle it in C
> > > 
> > > and need to handle by barebox itself when flashing
> > 
> > The image is pushed to the target through X-modem, directly talking to
> > the ROM code of the SoC. Do you want the kwboot tool to prepare the
> > image? It seems to me like it makes a lot more sense to have a tool to
> > prepare the image.
> 
> yes a you want to re-flash barebox itself and you will do for ddr and I do not
> want to care about all of this blob stuff twht the board already known
> 
> > 
> > Remember also that this tool is needed to *extract* existing images.
> > And you haven't explained how you intend to do this without a proper
> > userspace tool such as kwbimage.
> 
> why extract?

Because you *received* the blob over xmodem from the SoC.  It came from
the factory that way.  You need to take it apart to get the DDR info and
the stock bootloader blob.  Think of this as a tool to assist board
hackers when the mfgr doesn't have the time/experience to help the open
source community.

Since a separate tool is needed to do this, it makes sense to have the
same code perform the packing as well.  As opposed to the CPP.

hth,

Jason.