[U-Boot] Booting from Nand Flash base on i.MX51.

[U-Boot] Booting from Nand Flash base on i.MX51.

[shulin.zhou]

Hi,

I am using mx51 base board, ?I want to make u-boot booting from nand flash.
Does anyone knows how to modify the u-boot source?

Does add some code to init the nand flash controller in
flash_header.S's dcd section?

Does anyone have u-boot booting from NAND on mx51? Any repository, or a
patch that might be available?

Best Regards,
Shulin

[U-Boot] Booting from Nand Flash base on i.MX51.

[Stefano Babic]

shulin.zhou wrote:
> Hi,
> 

Hi,

> I am using mx51 base board,  I want to make u-boot booting from nand flash.
> Does anyone knows how to modify the u-boot source?

You have to add support for the NAND controller, not yet in mainline.

> 
> Does add some code to init the nand flash controller in
> flash_header.S's dcd section?

You are not talking about u-boot sources in mainline. Linking the DCD
together with u-boot is the original development by Freescale.

There is no flash_header.S in u-boot.

In mainline, an header is added to the binary providing a different
image that can be loaded into the storage. See doc/README.imximage. This
is consistent in u-boot because other processors use the same approach.

> Does anyone have u-boot booting from NAND on mx51? Any repository, or a
> patch that might be available?

At the moment, NAND is not supported in u-boot mainline for the MX.51.
Patches are welcome ;-)

Best regards,
Stefano Babic

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