[PATCH v2 0/7] Basic support for Armada 370/XP SOCs

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed May 8 17:59:26 EDT 2013


Dear Gregory CLEMENT,

On Wed, 08 May 2013 23:53:40 +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:

> >  - Add an integration of kwbimage to the Barebox build process. Now,
> >    when an ARCH_MVEBU platform is selected, a barebox.kwb file is
> >    automatically generated using the board kwbimage.cfg, and a
> >    barebox.kwbuart is generated using the board kwbimage.cfg + an
> >    override of the boot media to be UART.
> 
> It is a very nice improvement however, you should maybe mention somwhere
> that you expect to find a file named binary.0 at the root of the barebox
> sources. But it is not very important.

Indeed, but which "somewhere" do you suggest?

> However you didn't manage the out of tree building when KBUILD_OUTPUT is
> set. This is more annoying but it should be easily fixed.

Aah, I haven't thought of out-of-tree build. I'll test that and I'll
have a look.

> It didn't work for me when I tested the on the OpenBlocks AX3. The boot
> media didn't seem to have been overridden ie it still try to boot on the
> NOR. And if I modify the file arch/arm/boards/plathome-openblocks-ax3//kwbimage.cfg
> and replace spi by uart, then it works.

Are you sure you used barebox.kwbuart and not barebox.kwb?

Thanks for your testing!

Thomas
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