[meta-freescale] About customizing the image_types_fsl class

[Fabio Estevam]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Carlos Rafael Giani
<dv at pseudoterminal.org> wrote:
> On 2014-01-20 16:00, Daiane Angolini wrote:
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>> As I know it's supposed to be released today/tomorrow
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> Just had a discussion with developers working on Cubox-I support. They tried
> to push MXC SPL support for the CuBox-i upstream, didn't work out so far.

Have they sent their patch to the U-boot list? If so, care to point me
where these patches are in the list?

I do not recall seeing any patches from them in the U-boot mailing list.

> Otavio suggested to use mainline without SPL for now, but I am skeptical
> about it. SPL is a very nice feature, it allows me to use the exact same
> installation for several Cubox-i machines.
>
> The way I see it, there are two options for me:
> 1) Use the u-boot fork with MXC SPL support for now, until mainline supports
> MXC SPL. Then immediately switch to mainline by applying a patch to
> meta-fsl-arm-extra.
> 2) Use mainline without SPL, and live with the fact that I need a build for
> every single CuBox-i machine.

Or even better:

3) Work on upstreaming mx6 spl support into mainline U-boot

Regards,

Fabio Estevam