How to build QorIQ PBL in a batch process?

[adriancox]

I'm currently building our 5020 and 3041 u-boot images for SD card by manually loading an XXD file into Processor Expert.  Is there an equivalent command line driven process I could include in our build scripts? Processor Expert doesn't fit well with item 2 of the Joel test, and I'd like to be able to build complete SD card images on a Continuous Integration server.

[sinanakman · Accepted solution]

Hi Adrian, I am not sure if this is what you are asking but if you have the mainline u-boot, you could do e.g. :

make P3041DS_SDCARD_config

make u-boot.pbl

this should produce pbl images to boot from SD.

Hope this helps

Sinan Akman

[adriancox]

Thank you - I'd missed that completely, and it works perfectly. Took only a few minutes to port to my board.

Not only does it save all the typing, it also runs in under 1s, whereas Processor Expert takes more than 20s.

[sinanakman]

Happy to hear it worked out well for you.

Regards

Sinan Akman

[marius_grigoras]

Hi,

Sorry, but there is no equivalent command line for this procedure.

Regards,

Marius

[adriancox]

Not quite sure why the system has flagged this as "Helpful Answer" when it isn't correct. The correct answer is below from Sinan Akman, and is very simple: "make u-boot.pbl".

[sinanakman]

Adrian, I think FSL goes over the cases and marks them, perhaps there is some grading system based on the answers FSL employees provide. I saw the inconsistency before as well (marked correct when the answer is not correct) and tried to bring it up to FSL, not sure if they read my response (https://community.freescale.com/thread/310016).

For this case,  you might be able to leave the "helpful answer" and mark yours or mine as "correct" if someone later needs the same info.

Thanks

Sinan Akman

[adriancox]

When I came back after a few days I could mark your answer as correct, and remove the helpful answer mark on the wrong answer. This whole platform is pretty poor compared to Stack Overflow.