Flashing kernel from Linux

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 12:29:33PM +0200, Patrick Gerber wrote:
> Dear mailing list
> 
> I used to flash the linux kernel using barebox update command.
> Now I would like to do the same from the Linux side. A simple dd to
> /dev/mtdblockX used to work with uboot but doesn't work with
> barebox. Barebox complain at startup about bad image...
> Do you have any hint about how to flash the kernel from the Linux side ?
You first need to erase the flash (using flash_erase from the mtd-utils)
and then you might need to use nandwrite to actually write the image.

IIRC Busybox contains these utilities, too.

Best regards
Uwe

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