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-rw-r--r--common/spl/spl.c12
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index b7c2a17..9b748cc 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3607,6 +3607,16 @@ FIT uImage format:
CONFIG_SPL_STACK
Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use
+ CONFIG_SPL_PANIC_ON_RAW_IMAGE
+ When defined, SPL will panic() if the image it has
+ loaded does not have a signature.
+ Defining this is useful when code which loads images
+ in SPL cannot guarantee that absolutely all read errors
+ will be caught.
+ An example is the LPC32XX MLC NAND driver, which will
+ consider that a completely unreadable NAND block is bad,
+ and thus should be skipped silently.
+
CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_STACK
Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use after
relocation. If unspecified, this is equal to
diff --git a/common/spl/spl.c b/common/spl/spl.c
index cd75bbc..8e1fb40 100644
--- a/common/spl/spl.c
+++ b/common/spl/spl.c
@@ -101,10 +101,22 @@ void spl_parse_image_header(const struct image_header *header)
(int)sizeof(spl_image.name), spl_image.name,
spl_image.load_addr, spl_image.size);
} else {
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPL_PANIC_ON_RAW_IMAGE
+ /*
+ * CONFIG_SPL_PANIC_ON_RAW_IMAGE is defined when the
+ * code which loads images in SPL cannot guarantee that
+ * absolutely all read errors will be reported.
+ * An example is the LPC32XX MLC NAND driver, which
+ * will consider that a completely unreadable NAND block
+ * is bad, and thus should be skipped silently.
+ */
+ panic("** no mkimage signature but raw image not supported");
+#else
/* Signature not found - assume u-boot.bin */
debug("mkimage signature not found - ih_magic = %x\n",
header->ih_magic);
spl_set_header_raw_uboot();
+#endif
}
}