[PATCH 0/3 v2] Support for Voipac X53-DMM-668 module and Voipac Baseboard

[Sascha Hauer]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:11:04AM +0100, Rostislav Lisovy wrote:
> One small issue I am facing:
> The board has a jumper to switch between 'internal boot' and 'serial
> boot'. If I set it to 'serial boot' and then use imx-usb-loader to load
> barebox to RAM, everything works just fine. When I then try to flash it
> (flash controller support is missing in this patch-set), flashing is
> successful, however I am not able to boot it later when switched to
> 'internal boot' mode. If I try to flash some old version of the barebox
> (from my version running in RAM -- thus the problem is probably not in
> the flash support), it not only flashes successfully, this older version
> is even able to boot in the 'internal boot' mode.
> 
> I also noticed that when I am using CONFIG_IMX_MULTI_BOARDS the whole
> set of CONFIG_ARCH_IMX_INTERNAL_BOOT_* disappears.
> 
> Commands I am using to flash barebox:
> erase /dev/nand0
> addpart /dev/nand0 512k(barebox)ro,512k(bareboxenv),4M(kernel),-(rootfs)
> nand -a /dev/nand0.*
> erase /dev/nand0.barebox.bb
> tftp /vmx53/barebox.bin /dev/nand0.barebox.bb

You should use the barebox_update infrastructure. See
imx53_bbu_internal_nand_register_handler(). With this you would exeute
on the commandline:

barebox_update /path/to/barebox.bin

As a bonus this command also creates a bad block table the imx53 ROM is
able to read.

Sascha

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