* [U-Boot] Build u-Boot for NAND boot on i.MX53x platform @ 2012-02-08 4:16 Bud Miljkovic 2012-02-09 20:04 ` Charles Manning 2012-02-10 13:30 ` Stefano Babic 0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Bud Miljkovic @ 2012-02-08 4:16 UTC (permalink / raw) To: u-boot Can someone clue me in how one goes about a NAND bootable u-Boot? -bud ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* [U-Boot] Build u-Boot for NAND boot on i.MX53x platform 2012-02-08 4:16 [U-Boot] Build u-Boot for NAND boot on i.MX53x platform Bud Miljkovic @ 2012-02-09 20:04 ` Charles Manning 2012-02-09 20:41 ` Scott Wood 2012-02-10 13:30 ` Stefano Babic 1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Charles Manning @ 2012-02-09 20:04 UTC (permalink / raw) To: u-boot On Wednesday 08 February 2012 17:16:10 Bud Miljkovic wrote: > Can someone clue me in how one goes about a NAND bootable u-Boot? > Bud You can't actually run uboot from NAND per se. The rom boot loader reads the image into ram where it runs. Based on my experience with omap - which uses a very similar sequence - you need to configure the uboot to run from the desired location in RAM. The resulting uboot.bin must then be mashed in whatever way is appropriate for loading with the rom boot loader and programmed to flash. -- CHarles ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* [U-Boot] Build u-Boot for NAND boot on i.MX53x platform 2012-02-09 20:04 ` Charles Manning @ 2012-02-09 20:41 ` Scott Wood 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Scott Wood @ 2012-02-09 20:41 UTC (permalink / raw) To: u-boot On 02/09/2012 02:04 PM, Charles Manning wrote: > On Wednesday 08 February 2012 17:16:10 Bud Miljkovic wrote: >> Can someone clue me in how one goes about a NAND bootable u-Boot? >> > > Bud > > You can't actually run uboot from NAND per se. The rom boot loader reads the > image into ram where it runs. > > Based on my experience with omap - which uses a very similar sequence - you > need to configure the uboot to run from the desired location in RAM. The > resulting uboot.bin must then be mashed in whatever way is appropriate for > loading with the rom boot loader and programmed to flash. On some hardware, the boot rom/logic will only load a small piece from RAM (e.g. 4K). U-Boot can be built with a prepended miniloader (SPL) to fetch the main U-Boot image. The details (and whether this is supported at all) depend on what board you're talking about. There is SPL support for some i.MX chips -- not sure about i.MX53x. -Scott ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* [U-Boot] Build u-Boot for NAND boot on i.MX53x platform 2012-02-08 4:16 [U-Boot] Build u-Boot for NAND boot on i.MX53x platform Bud Miljkovic 2012-02-09 20:04 ` Charles Manning @ 2012-02-10 13:30 ` Stefano Babic 2012-02-10 15:05 ` Fabio Estevam 1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Stefano Babic @ 2012-02-10 13:30 UTC (permalink / raw) To: u-boot On 08/02/2012 05:16, Bud Miljkovic wrote: > Can someone clue me in how one goes about a NAND bootable u-Boot? The mkimage tool supports the generation of the image that can be loaded into a NAND flash. However, the main problem is that at the moment there is no NAND driver for MX53. The mxc_nand.c driver does not support MX5 SOCs. Best regards, Stefano Babic -- ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-0 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: office at denx.de ===================================================================== ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* [U-Boot] Build u-Boot for NAND boot on i.MX53x platform 2012-02-10 13:30 ` Stefano Babic @ 2012-02-10 15:05 ` Fabio Estevam 2012-02-10 15:14 ` Stefano Babic 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Fabio Estevam @ 2012-02-10 15:05 UTC (permalink / raw) To: u-boot On 2/10/12, Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de> wrote: > The mkimage tool supports the generation of the image that can be loaded > into a NAND flash. However, the main problem is that at the moment there > is no NAND driver for MX53. The mxc_nand.c driver does not support MX5 SOCs. Yes, but the internal boot mode can be used though. Regards, Fabio Estevam ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* [U-Boot] Build u-Boot for NAND boot on i.MX53x platform 2012-02-10 15:05 ` Fabio Estevam @ 2012-02-10 15:14 ` Stefano Babic 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Stefano Babic @ 2012-02-10 15:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: u-boot On 10/02/2012 16:05, Fabio Estevam wrote: > On 2/10/12, Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de> wrote: > >> The mkimage tool supports the generation of the image that can be loaded >> into a NAND flash. However, the main problem is that at the moment there >> is no NAND driver for MX53. The mxc_nand.c driver does not support MX5 SOCs. > > Yes, but the internal boot mode can be used though. Yes, this is right - this is what I meant with "mkimage support". However, u-boot does not help to install itself in NAND, and you must use other tools to physically store the image on the NAND. And the environment must be still saved on another storage (MMC for example), as well as other images that must be accessed by the bootloader. If I had to write a to-do list to make a MX53 based hardware really working with NAND, adding a NAND driver for MX5 to u-boot goes to first place. Best regards, Stefano Babic -- ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-0 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: office at denx.de ===================================================================== ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
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