[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/p1010rdb: SECURE BOOT- define CONFIG_SYS_RAMBOOT for NAND boot

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Aneesh,

In message <7f771c64c5c44208b24e38c75e159f28@DM2PR03MB415.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> you wrote:
>
> Sorry for the misleading statement. Yes, CONFIG_SYS_RAMBOOT is for
> booting from RAM directly and we have used it for the same purpose in
> the patch. Let me try and explain.

Mind the "directly" in this sentence, and no, you have not used it in
this way.

> What I meant is that for P1010 like platforms for normal (non-secure)
> boot in case of NAND, we don't use the CONFIG_SYS_RAMBOOT as we
> don't boot from RAM directly in this case.

You also do not boot directly from RAM in the secure case.

> However in case of secure boot, even for NAND, we boot from RAM
> directly with boot ROM (ISBC) code copying the image from NAND to
> RAM. So in P1010RDB.h config file, for NAND Secure boot, we have

This is NOT a RAM boot.  This is a completely normal boot process from
NAND.  You must not declare this as RAM booting, as it is NOT.

> defined CONFIG_RAMBOOT_NAND and then further are enabling
> CONFIG_SYS_RAMBOOT for the same.

This is wrong.  You have the ROM boot loader booting from NAND and
not from RAM.

The name CONFIG_RAMBOOT_NAND is an oxymoron in itself (and it's
undocumented as well).   This should be fixed, as it makes no sense.

You cannot "RAM-boot form NAND" - you can always boot from a single
boot device only - either NOR or NAND or SDCard or ... or RAM.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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