[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/4] Attempt to improve support for Altera SoC FPGA boards
Jan Viktorin
viktorin at rehivetech.com
Mon Oct 19 16:30:14 UTC 2015
I am sorry, the text may be a little bit confusing, so I am adding
some clarifications...
On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:24:50 +0200
Jan Viktorin <viktorin at rehivetech.com> wrote:
> Hello Buildroot community,
>
> the following patch series attempts to improve support for building for
> Altera SoC FPGA boards. I mean, I'd like to have it ready out-of-the-box.
>
> The readme says that it is necessary to "sign" (it is now signing, just CRC
"not signing"
> by the way) the SPL image in order to boot. I cannot ack this because my
> SoC Development Kit (not the Arrow one!) boots normally with the generated
> SPL. How is it possible then? Is it fixed in U-Boot? I doubt, didn't find it
> there... I am confused about it.
>
> I don't have the second board (Arrow SoCKit) to prove it boots without it.
*it boots without "signing"
>
> Anyway, this series contains updates to the readme.txt and also adds mkpimage
> package to support the "signing" of the SPL images. Those patches are not
> very coherent and I do not expect to merge them at this stage.
The readme should be updated that it is not necessary to sign anything.
Or the mkpimage package should be included in Buildroot.
>
> Can somebody check whether the generated SPL boots on Arrow SoCKit?
>
> If it does not, I would like to add the mkpimage package to Buildroot (however,
> it requires a Go compiler).
>
> If there is no issue, I would just leave the readme updates (an improve them
> a bit).
>
> Regards
> Jan Viktorin
>
> Jan Viktorin (4):
> mkpimage: new host package
> boot/uboot: compute CRC on SPLs for Altera SoC FPGA
> socfpga: update readme for sockit/socdk boards
> socfpga: note about unnecessary mkpimage of SPL
>
> board/altera/readme.txt | 31 +++++++++++++++++--------------
> boot/uboot/Config.in | 10 ++++++++++
> boot/uboot/uboot.mk | 9 +++++++++
> package/mkpimage/mkpimage.mk | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 package/mkpimage/mkpimage.mk
>
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Jan Viktorin E-mail: Viktorin at RehiveTech.com
System Architect Web: www.RehiveTech.com
RehiveTech
Brno, Czech Republic
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