[U-Boot] spl_mmc: allow to load raw image

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 08:32:48PM -0500, Derald D. Woods wrote:
> On 05/01/2016 03:37 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >Hi Adam,
> >
> >
> >2016-04-30 3:06 GMT+09:00 Adam Ford <aford173@gmail.com>:
> >>On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> wrote:
> >>>On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 09:59:00AM -0500, Adam Ford wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Does anyone with an OMAP3 board have any issues with this patch?  I
> >>>>will admit I haven't stayed on top of stuff due to moving, and other
> >>>>issues at home, but I pulled down the master to reviews some on
> >>>>related stuff, and found that master doesn't boot.  I used git bisect
> >>>>this morning and it narrowed down a problem with booting to this
> >>>>patch.
> >>>>
> >>>>With the patch, I get:
> >>>>
> >>>>U-Boot SPL 2016.03-00378-g4976f48 (Apr 29 2016 - 09:25:27)
> >>>>Trying to boot from MMC
> >>>OK.  Do you have u-boot.bin or u-boot.img (which?) written to the raw
> >>>offset in MMC or from filesystem?  Based on the log it looks like
> >>>filesystem.
> >>I have u-boot.img copied to the fatfs on the card, but I didn't put it
> >>in a specific location.
> >>
> >>I never used to have to do that.  Is this a new behavior and is it
> >>documented somewhere?
> >>
> >>adam
> >
> >You are expecting to boot it from FAT,
> >but I think spl_boot_mode() on your board returns MMCSD_MODE_RAW.
> >
> >Can you fix the function to return MMCSD_MODE_FS?
> >
> >
> >
> >This commit changed to allow to load raw U-Boot image,
> >so MMCSD_MODE_RAW never fails.
> >
> >So, you can no longer rely on the former behavior
> >"try MMCSD_MODE_RAW first, and fallback to MMCSD_MODE_FS".
> >
> 
> So everyone loading MLO from the FAT filesystem is now wrong? I am
> trying to understand how this came into being the default.

... yes, we can't break the case of SPL+U-Boot being on FS on MMC1.  I
wonder if:
commit 22d90d560a2b01c47f180e196e6c6485eb8e65db
Author: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Date:   Tue Mar 1 09:56:34 2016 +0100

    omap3: Use raw SPL by default for mmc1

Isn't part of what's going wrong now.

-- 
Tom
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