Re: [PATCH] Documentation: user: barebox: make barebox chainloading clearer

[Sascha Hauer <sha@pengutronix.de>]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 12:52:55PM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> barebox images are designed to be chainloadable and can be loaded as if
> they were a kernel by other bootloaders. The documentation lists
> examples for two ways to achieve this with U-Boot preinstalled on the
> board. They are not as clear as they could be as the resulting uImage
> is called image in the mkimage line, but barebox.bin later on. This is
> unfortunate as the build results in a barebox.bin already, which
> corresponds to barebox proper in PBL setups. Rename it to barebox.uImage
> instead and while at it note that booti isn't applicable to arm32.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  Documentation/user/barebox.rst | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks

Sascha

> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/user/barebox.rst b/Documentation/user/barebox.rst
> index c95adb78bb83..80f0f96a98de 100644
> --- a/Documentation/user/barebox.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/user/barebox.rst
> @@ -212,7 +212,8 @@ like a Linux kernel that is passed an external device tree. For example:
>  
>    U-Boot: tftp $kernel_addr barebox-dt-2nd.img
>    U-Boot: tftp $fdt_addr my-board.dtb
> -  U-Boot: booti $kernel_addr - $fdt_addr
> +  U-Boot: bootm $kernel_addr - $fdt_addr # On 32-bit ARM
> +  U-Boot: booti $kernel_addr - $fdt_addr # for other platforms
>  
>  For non-DT enabled-bootloaders or other architectures, often the normal barebox
>  binaries can also be used as they are designed to be startable second stage
> @@ -224,7 +225,7 @@ converted to uImage format using the mkimage tool provided with U-Boot:
>  .. code-block:: console
>  
>    sh: mkimage -n barebox -A arm -T kernel -C none -a 0x80000000 -d \
> -      build/images/barebox-freescale-imx53-loco.img image
> +      build/images/barebox-freescale-imx53-loco.img barebox.uImage
>  
>  U-Boot expects the start address of the binary to be given in the image using the
>  ``-a`` option. The address depends on the board and must be an address which isn't
> @@ -233,7 +234,7 @@ image for that board. The image can then be started with ``bootm``:
>  
>  .. code-block:: console
>  
> -  U-Boot: tftp $load_addr barebox.bin
> +  U-Boot: tftp $load_addr barebox.uImage
>    U-Boot: bootm $load_addr
>  
>  With barebox already running on your board, this can be used to chainload
> -- 
> 2.39.2
> 
> 
> 

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