Re: [PATCH v2 16/18] hw/arm/fsl-imx8mp: Add boot ROM

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 at 09:21, Bernhard Beschow <shentey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On a real device, the boot ROM contains the very first instructions the CPU
> executes. Also, U-Boot calls into the ROM to determine the boot device. While
> we're not actually implementing this here, let's create the infrastructure and
> add a dummy ROM with all zeros. This allows for implementing a ROM later 
> without
> touching the source code and even allows for users to provide their own ROMs.
>
> The imx8mp-boot.rom was created with
> `dd if=/dev/zero of=imx8mp-boot.rom bs=1 count=258048`.

If it's all zeroes, we don't need to commit it to git as a binary,
we can generate it at build time. (We should avoid having
binaries in git as much as we can manage.)

thanks
-- PMM