On 10:21 Mon 06 May , Jason Cooper wrote: > 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. This will only work if you known the DDR which is a huge suposition. When porting barebox on new hardware this will not help at all so not this tool can not be the default tool generate fashable images > > 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. _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
