Install barebox on target

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Sascha, Thomas,

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:09:23AM +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 08:40:53AM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 05:08:10PM +0100, Thomas Mayer wrote:
> > > thanks, I will try that.
> > > Today I got our real hardware. It consists of the freescale cpu board, a
> > > custom baseboard with a different display.
> > > With that I was able to start barebox completely. Network works fine,
> > > but I can't access the nand memory, because barebox doesn't find it at
> > > startup. I added all possible nand drivers to barebox, but it still
> > > doesn't work.
> > > 
> > > Any idea?
> > > 
> > > --------------------------------------- u-boot output
> > > -----------------------------------------
> > > U-Boot 2009.08 (Jan 13 2010 -
> > > 
> > > Page Geometry     :
> > > 4096+218
> > 
> > This will cause problems. I never had a nand with 4k block size and I
> > doubt it will work out of the box. I don't know if that's the reason
> > barebox does not find no nand device at all though.
> 
> I'm also seeing problems with a 4k page size (+218 OOB) SLC NAND flash of 
> Micron on i.MX25. Barebox does identify the flash chip, but can't read it 
> correctly.  I'm investigating the issue. So far I've found that the OOB area 
> is read as 0x00s instead of 0xffs, even for good blocks. This makes Barebox to 
> mark the whole flash as bad blocks.
> 
> The Linux kernel, however, seems to work correctly with this flash when 
> applying a small fix to use the correct(?) nand_ecclayout.

I should also add the booting from this NAND with Barebox works perfectly. I 
used the kernel to program Barebox into the flash.

baruch

> > > --------------------------------------- barebox output
> > > ------------------------------------------
> > > barebox 2011.02.0 (Feb 25 2011 - 16:35:47)
> > > 
> > > Board: Freescale MX35 3Stack
> > > No NAND device found!!!
> > > cfi_probe: cfi_flash base: 0xa0000000 size: 0x04000000
> > > mc13892-i2c at mc13892-i2c0: PMIC ID: 0x000045d0 [Rev: 2.0a]
> > > smc911x: no smc911x found on 0xb6000000 (byte_test=0x00f000f0)
> > > imx-ipu-fb at imx-ipu-fb0: i.MX Framebuffer driver
> > > mc13892-i2c at mc13892-i2c0: revision: 0x45d0
> > > i.MX35 PDK CPU board version 1.
> > > Malloc space: 0x86f00000 -> 0x87f00000 (size 16 MB)
> > > Stack space : 0x86ef8000 -> 0x86f00000 (size 32 kB)
> > > Open /dev/env0 No such file or directory
> > > no valid environment found on /dev/env0. Using default environment
> > > running /env/bin/init...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > regards
> > > Thomas
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Am 25.02.2011 16:06, schrieb Sascha Hauer:
> > > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:15:01AM +0100, Thomas Mayer wrote:
> > > >   
> > > >> Hi Sascha,
> > > >>
> > > >> That's not quite correct. When you use the debug + personality board you
> > > >> can boot directly from a mmc-card which contains bootloader, kernel and
> > > >> rootfs without modifications. Only if you use the single personality
> > > >> board, you have to modify die board a little bit.
> > > >>     
> > > > Ah, ok. I didn't know that.
> > > >
> > > >   
> > > >> Thanks for your short introduction. I tried to run the barebox image
> > > >> with u-boot and it seems to work. But after I get the following output
> > > >> barebox stops and do nothing.
> > > >>     
> > > > That's a bug in the support for multiple network devices. Please pull
> > > > the -next branch again, then it should work.
> > > >
> > > > Sascha

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