12 Mar
2020
12 Mar
'20
7:32 a.m.
Hi,
Sorry for joining in late
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The 1MB was to deal with limitations in the boot rom. If the boot rom needs extra space, would it not be better to have an initial loader that understands partitioning in the 1st 1MB and load the remaining images from a real partition?
This is driven by the BL2 which is platform specific and I am not sure we can have any influence. The flashimage.bin in a number of system consists of a (blob) FIP that has BL2, SCP stuff, BL31, BL32, BL33. Ilias upstream U-Boot patches to change from "ADR" to "ADRL" because the code grew too much.
Not U-boot but OP-TEE but the case stands
EBBR same paragraph also states: "Automatic partitioning tools (e.g. an OS installer) must not create
Regards /Ilias