From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: Patrick Gerber <patrick.gerber@sensometrix.ch>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Flashing kernel from Linux
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 12:42:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120502104249.GA20039@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA10C8D.9010803@sensometrix.ch>
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 12:29:33PM +0200, Patrick Gerber wrote:
> Dear mailing list
>
> I used to flash the linux kernel using barebox update command.
> Now I would like to do the same from the Linux side. A simple dd to
> /dev/mtdblockX used to work with uboot but doesn't work with
> barebox. Barebox complain at startup about bad image...
> Do you have any hint about how to flash the kernel from the Linux side ?
You first need to erase the flash (using flash_erase from the mtd-utils)
and then you might need to use nandwrite to actually write the image.
IIRC Busybox contains these utilities, too.
Best regards
Uwe
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2012-05-02 10:29 Flashing kernel from Linux Patrick Gerber
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