Re: Trasnferring u-boot to P2 730

[Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>]

[Chetan Kapoor <chetan.kapoor@flextronicssoftware.com>]
> Hello 
> 
> I am also working on the P2 board and having similar problems with u-boot 
> download onto the board.
> 
> Can we not use OST Tools - a TI application, for downloading the 
> u-boot.bin onto the P2 board RAM/FLASH, OST seems to have flexibility 
> between downloading & executing images from RAM AND downloading/burning 
> images to flash.
> 
> I was able to download the u-boot.bin (the raw binary) as well as u-boot 
> (ELF image) to P2's RAM using OST Tools over a serial line (COM1). I has 
> success in downloading u-boot to the specific address in RAM, but the 
> image doesn't seem to execute/run. ALso, there is a provision of 
> downloading images over the USB connection to the target, but in my case 
> my Windows PC does not detect the P2 board as a USB device when I connect 
> the board to the host PC with a USB cable. Rather, the charging LED on the 
> board blinks for a second. 

There is a bug in P2 (some combination of an on-die rom bug and a board
design issue, iirc) that prevents USB download from working.

Brian