[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/14] Nokia RX-51 support

Marek Vasut
2012-01-25T18:20:01Z

> On Wednesday 25 January 2012 04:48:00 Sergey Lapin wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 03:27:57PM +0100, Pali Roh?r wrote:
> > > This patch series add support for new board Nokia RX-51 (aka N900).
> > > Last two patches adding on screen bootmenu support.
> > >
> > > This series supersedes the last sent version.
> >
> > A quick offtopic question - how do you replace boot loader on N900?
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > S.
>
> See commit message in: [PATCH 12/14] New board support: Nokia RX-51 aka
> N900
>
> Bootloader is not replacing (yet). Instead U-Boot is flashed into kernel
> area and loaded by proprietary NOLO bootloader. NOLO can load only one
> image and only from kernel area - so it does not support dualbooting.

So why not just replace the bootloader right away?
>
> Kernel image can be attached into U-Boot binary (at pos. 0x40000) and
> flashed into nand kernel area (2MB is enought for U-Boot with kernel). And
> then U-Boot can boot attached kernel image or load/boot it from SD/eMMC.