From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Prabhakar Lad Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:16:11 +0530 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 16/18] da850_am18xxevm: Add README.da850_am18xxevm In-Reply-To: <5033AA82.2090401@ti.com> References: <1345481154-7050-1-git-send-email-trini@ti.com> <1345481154-7050-17-git-send-email-trini@ti.com> <5033180A.4010702@ti.com> <5033AA82.2090401@ti.com> Message-ID: <50346413.9020509@ti.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Tuesday 21 August 2012 09:04 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > On 08/20/2012 10:09 PM, Prabhakar Lad wrote: >> Hi Tom, >> >> Thanks for the patch. >> >> On Monday 20 August 2012 10:15 PM, Tom Rini wrote: >>> Add a board-specific README that documents how to write u-boot.ais to >>> the SPI found on this board. >>> >>> Changes-series: 2 >>> - Add >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini >>> --- >>> >>> board/davinci/da8xxevm/README.da850_am18xxevm | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+) >>> create mode 100644 board/davinci/da8xxevm/README.da850_am18xxevm >>> >>> diff --git a/board/davinci/da8xxevm/README.da850_am18xxevm b/board/davinci/da8xxevm/README.da850_am18xxevm >>> new file mode 100644 >>> index 0000000..382b718 >>> --- /dev/null >>> +++ b/board/davinci/da8xxevm/README.da850_am18xxevm >>> @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ >>> +Summary >>> +======= >>> +The README is for the boot procedure used for the LogicPD AM1808 EVM. >>> + >>> +The board is booted in three stages. The initial bootloader which executes >>> +upon reset is the Rom Boot Loader(RBL) which sits in the internal ROM. The >>> +RBL initialises the memory and the SPI controller and reads the AIS image >>> +starting at block 0. This image can contain both the SPL and U-Boot >>> +binaries. >>> + >>> +AIS is an image format defined by TI for the images that are to be >>> +loaded to memory by the RBL. The image is divided into a series of >>> +sections and the image's entry point is specified. Each section comes >>> +with meta data like the target address the section is to be copied to >>> +and the size of the section, which is used by the RBL to load the >>> +image. At the end of the image the RBL jumps to the image entry >>> +point. >>> + >>> +The secondary stage bootloader(spl) which is loaded by the RBL then loads >>> +the u-boot from a predefined location in SPI to DDR and jumps to the u-boot >>> +entry point. >>> + >>> + >>> +Compilation >>> +=========== >>> +To build a SPI-bootable image, run 'make da850_am18xxevm'. This will build >>> +the u-boot.ais file that needs to be written to SPI flash. >>> + >>> + >>> +Flashing the images to Nand >>> +=========================== >>> +The AIS image can be written to SPI flash using the following commands. >>> +Assuming that the network is configured and enabled and the u-boot.ais file >>> +is tftp'able. >>> + >>> +U-Boot > sf probe 0 >>> +U-Boot > sf erase 0 +320000 >>> +U-Boot > tftp u-boot.ais >>> +U-Boot > sf write c0700000 0 $filesize >>> + >> Is this procedure to be done in Nand boot mode ? > > This board, as far as I know (which isn't much) doesn't use NAND, just > SPI. The USE_NAND section of da850evm.h doesn't seem reachable today at > least. > But the title for above says 'Flashing the images to Nand' ? It should be SPI. Thx, --Prabhakar