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From: Derald D. Woods <woods.technical@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 20:32:48 -0500
Subject: [U-Boot] spl_mmc: allow to load raw image
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On 05/01/2016 03:37 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
>
> 2016-04-30 3:06 GMT+09:00 Adam Ford <aford173@gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 09:59:00AM -0500, Adam Ford wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone with an OMAP3 board have any issues with this patch?  I
>>>> will admit I haven't stayed on top of stuff due to moving, and other
>>>> issues at home, but I pulled down the master to reviews some on
>>>> related stuff, and found that master doesn't boot.  I used git bisect
>>>> this morning and it narrowed down a problem with booting to this
>>>> patch.
>>>>
>>>> With the patch, I get:
>>>>
>>>> U-Boot SPL 2016.03-00378-g4976f48 (Apr 29 2016 - 09:25:27)
>>>> Trying to boot from MMC
>>> OK.  Do you have u-boot.bin or u-boot.img (which?) written to the raw
>>> offset in MMC or from filesystem?  Based on the log it looks like
>>> filesystem.
>> I have u-boot.img copied to the fatfs on the card, but I didn't put it
>> in a specific location.
>>
>> I never used to have to do that.  Is this a new behavior and is it
>> documented somewhere?
>>
>> adam
>
> You are expecting to boot it from FAT,
> but I think spl_boot_mode() on your board returns MMCSD_MODE_RAW.
>
> Can you fix the function to return MMCSD_MODE_FS?
>
>
>
> This commit changed to allow to load raw U-Boot image,
> so MMCSD_MODE_RAW never fails.
>
> So, you can no longer rely on the former behavior
> "try MMCSD_MODE_RAW first, and fallback to MMCSD_MODE_FS".
>

So everyone loading MLO from the FAT filesystem is now wrong? I am 
trying to understand how this came into being the default.

Derald