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From: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] imximage: Fix the bootdata.size calculation
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 10:14:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5447675C.3070708@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54475EF6.6030107@freescale.com>

Hi Ye,

On 22/10/2014 09:38, Li Ye-B37916 wrote:

> You can look into the "Figure 8-21. Image Vector Table" in the system boot chapter of i.MX6Q manual. The bootdata.start points
> to the beginning of the destination memory, which means the bootdata.size should have IVT offset included.

Well, ok, this is an interpretation....

>  We also have checked
> the boot rom codes for this.

ok - this is the most important thing. Is it the same for all MX6 and
MX53 ?

> 
> We found this issue when booting from QSPI NOR on i.MX6SX. The u-boot runs into abnormal (crash or stop) after booting.  We checked the
> destination memory where the image is loaded to, and found hundreds of bytes at the image end are not loaded into memory. Since there
> is a 4096 bytes round in the calculation, so the image size decides if the issue can be reproduced. It is not easy to see the issue by SD boot.

ok - the only thing that it looks weird is that the issue happens now
and not with a MX6Q(D) booting from SPI-NOR. There are several boards
booting from SPI, but I have not heard about such as problems.

Best regards,
Stefano Babic


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-22  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-22  6:39 [U-Boot] [PATCH] imximage: Fix the bootdata.size calculation Ye.Li
2014-10-22  7:22 ` Stefano Babic
2014-10-22  7:38   ` Li Ye-B37916
2014-10-22  8:14     ` Stefano Babic [this message]
2014-10-22  8:32       ` Li Ye-B37916
2014-10-22 16:52     ` Fabio Estevam

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