[U-Boot] Problem booting CRAMFS with flattened device tree

[Pieter <phenning@vastech.co.za>]

hendrik wrote:
> Greetings  all,
>
> I have been able to port to U-boot 2009 successfully and am able to boot 
> Linux 2.6.27 via NFS using a flattened device tree. I am now stuck 
> trying to boot a CRAMFS version from flash (AMD nor). I found that 
> U-boot1.2 used a MTD map that is compiled for the board. Is this still 
> the way to mount and map the flash in U-Boot 2009?
>
> I have defined the flash partitions in the device tree source, but it 
> does not seem to get used. am I missing a step or a config setting?
>   
<snip>

to use partitions as define in FDT define the following in your kernel config

CONFIG_MTD_PHYSMAP_OF=y
CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS=y
CONFIG_MTD_OF_PARTS=y

enable MTD_CIF and read http://kernel.xc.net/html/linux-2.6.27/powerpc/

cheers pieter

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