From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 21:18:44 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v4 0/7] Support building a second Barebox config (incl. BBB) In-Reply-To: <20160421132905.7c271814@free-electrons.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Thu, 21 Apr 2016 13:29:05 +0200") References: <1458513351-6556-1-git-send-email-pieter@boesman.nl> <20160419212441.6a0454e9@free-electrons.com> <20160419201733.GA19934@smipidev> <20160420164216.GA26814@smipidev> <20160421132905.7c271814@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <8760v6rf1n.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: Hi, >> If I copy your images (MLO, barebox.bin) directly to the FAT >> partition, everything starts as expected. But I dd boot.vfat, the >> system doesn't boot and shows only CCCCC, though I have no problems >> mounting the first partition in Linux. >> >> sudo dd if=/tmp/boot.vfat of=/dev/sdd1 bs=1M > So this means that the Barebox build is OK, and only the genimage part > is causing problems. But this doesn't prevent from merging the barebox > aspects of the series (patches 1 to 6), which are really the important > part. The last patch is really more a defconfig proving that it works, > I am not even sure that in practice we want to merge a defconfig for > BeagleBone that is just different from beaglebone_defconfig in the fact > that it uses Barebox instead of U-Boot. Peter? > Peter, I think you looked at using genimage on AM335x, what were your > conclusion? On OMAP3, there were some very strict geometry restrictions > in the romcode, but I don't remember if your conclusion is that they > also apply to AM335x or not. The rom code afaik checks that the partition size matches exactly with the size of the fat file system, so just dd'ing a fat fs image to an existing partition is unlikely to work: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/beagleboard/ro5k5r4Cuq4 -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard