[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] mx5: Add support for DENX M53EVK

Marek Vasut
2013-04-14T19:18:59Z

Dear Wolfgang Denk,

> Dear Marek Vasut,
>
> In message <201304141920.32212.marex@denx.de> you wrote:
> > > Just curious: which method did you use to flash the final binary into
> > > the NAND? Did you boot the kernel and used mtd-utils?
> > >
> > > Maybe we could add such info later into a README?
> >
> > I just wrote the resulting u-boot.nand to the 0x0 of the NAND.
>
> This is not exactly a very precise instruction...

Use simple "nand write" to flash the resulting image to address 0x0 of the nand,
that's all.

> How exactly do I write to NAND on a virgin (or bricked) system?
> I think Fabio's request makes a lot of sense - yes, you know how to
> do this, but I don't, and neither does the average user.

This will change anyway, as will the rest of the patchset as I will need to
rework it on top of Benoit's patches.

> Can we
> please document this? With sufficient detail everybody understands
> which tools you used to do this, and what the exact steps where to
> perform the operation?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Wolfgang Denk

Best regards,
Marek Vasut