Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra][PATCH 0/3] Initial support for Nitrogen6X

[Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>]

Hi Otavio,

On 12/11/2012 07:10 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Eric Nelson <
> eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> This brings up a couple of questions.
>>
>> What boot script? I think I saw a reference to one that we placed
>> in our U-Boot tree in one of your patches, but I'll need to spend some
>> more time with that.
>>
>
> I see; please try to boot u-boot-script-boundary package and try again. It
> should work then.
>
>
>> Why two partitions? It seems that unless a RAM disk is used, a
>> single partition should suffice. The same is true of SABRE Lite,
>> but I just noticed that the Freescale default environment only
>> supports FAT for some reason :(.
>>
>
> The sdcard generation routine works this way and I'd like to do minimal
> changes on this, if possible. Currently the change I am doing is to have
> the boot script in the first partition. Maybe we'd need to patch the boot
> script to be able to load kernel and pass the right root param, but rest
> should work fine.
>

I have no problem building 6x_bootscript_yocto and adding it to our git
repository. I think this will require a bump in the revision.

Do you want to keep uImage in the root of the first partition, and
format that as FAT?

Please advise,


Eric