[PATCH u-boot v2 3/3] Enable FIT image support and FDT loading for AST2400/AST2500
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Mon Dec 5 17:24:52 AEDT 2016
On 2 December 2016 at 15:27, Rick Altherr <raltherr at google.com> wrote:
> FIT is the modern u-boot native image format for kernels, device trees,
> and ramdisks. Enabling FIT only compiles in support for the image
> format. For these devices, the kernel+dtb and ramdisk are loaded from
> separate locations in flash and can be any mix of legacy or FIT images.
> When using FIT images, the dtb is stored as a separate entry that
> requires CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT to load it into RAM and pass it to the kernel.
>
> u-boot enables EFI support by default but it only builds once FIT
nit: U-Boot
> support is enabled. EFI support adds ~13k to the binary and is
> currently unused for any Aspeed platforms. Explicitly disable EFI
> support now that FIT support is enabled.
>
> Tested under qemu with both legacy and FIT kernel+dtb images for
> palmetto and witherspoon.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rick Altherr <raltherr at google.com>
> ---
> configs/ast_g4_ncsi_defconfig | 5 +++++
> configs/ast_g4_phy_defconfig | 5 +++++
> configs/ast_g5_ncsi_defconfig | 5 +++++
> configs/ast_g5_phy_defconfig | 5 +++++
> 4 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
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