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From: "Andreas Bießmann" <andreas.devel@googlemail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] u-boot USB question
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 07:45:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5195C3ED.2030004@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51958652.7030501@atmel.com>

Hi Lance, Bo,

On 17.05.13 03:22, Bo Shen wrote:
> Hi Lance,
> 
> On 5/17/2013 06:32, Lance Beck wrote:
>> We are using u-boot on an AT91SAM9G20 platform with NAND Flash and
>> running Linux.  Is there a means to update the kernel and root fs
>> image by reading them from a USB memory device and writing the new
>> images to flash?  I have built the fw_printenv tool thinking I might
>> be able to use this to somehow trigger that action.
> 
> Yes. Please take the following example (using the mainline
> u-boot-2013.04) for updating related image from USB disk.
> 
> 1. connect usb to board and power up
> U-boot> usb start
> (Re)start USB...
> USB:   scanning bus for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found
>        scanning bus for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
> U-boot> fatls usb 0
> ...
> 2396352 uImage
> ...
> U-boot> fatload usb 0 0x20000000 uImage
> U-boot> nand erase 0x200000 0x600000
> U-boot> nand write 0x20000000 0x200000 <uImage_size>

just a pointer ...
All these load commands (fat, ubi, ...) set an env named filesize. Just
write

U-boot> nand write 0x20000000 0x200000 $filesize

There is another magic env that can be used here. One can define
CONFIG_LOADADDR (or was it CONFIG_SYS_LOADADDR ... there was a
discussion to consolidate this) to have env 'loadaddr' set. With that
you can use $loadaddr instead of 0x20000000 in the example above.

Best regards

Andreas Bie?mann

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-17  5:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-16 22:32 [U-Boot] u-boot USB question Lance Beck
2013-05-17  1:22 ` Bo Shen
2013-05-17  2:20   ` Lance Beck
2013-05-17  3:04     ` Bo Shen
2013-05-17  3:39       ` Michael Trimarchi
2013-05-17  5:54     ` Andreas Bießmann
2013-05-17  5:45   ` Andreas Bießmann [this message]

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