[U-Boot] NAND only (no NOR)

Sean MacLennan
2008-12-03T02:50:33Z

On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:55:24 +0100
"Norbert van Bolhuis" <nvbolhuis@aimvalley.nl> wrote:

>
> Nowadays, do many (PowerPC) embedded devices already risk omitting
> NOR flash and use a NAND device solely for booting and storing
> images ?
>
> I'm talking about systems with 10 years life-cycle (so no
> MP3-players nor medical systems but somewhere in between).
>
> We have a MPC8313E-RDB and I know booting from NAND is
> possible. U-boot seems to support it well, I assume it can read
> the kernel, ramdisk and dtb from NAND in memory and bootm this.

We use a 256M NAND on the PIKA Warp appliance and where unable to boot
u-boot from the NAND. It worked on a smaller 64M NAND.

So we put our FPGA and u-boot in a small NOR. The kernel, rootfs and
other files are on the NAND.

Cheers,
Sean