[PATCH v3 0/4] mvebu: Add network support for Armada 370/XP

Ezequiel Garcia ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com
Tue Nov 11 06:34:30 PST 2014


On 11/11/2014 11:31 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Ezequiel Garcia,
> 
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:25:40 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> 
>>   Fix the produced kwbimage.cfg to boot from UART (actually, I think it's not needed):
>>
>>   diff --git a/arch/arm/boards/plathome-openblocks-ax3/kwbimage.cfg b/arch/arm/boards/plathome-openblocks-ax3/kwbimage.cfg
>>   index 219c2ec..fd6c0df 100644
>>   --- a/arch/arm/boards/plathome-openblocks-ax3/kwbimage.cfg
>>   +++ b/arch/arm/boards/plathome-openblocks-ax3/kwbimage.cfg
>>   @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>>    VERSION 1
>>   -BOOT_FROM spi
>>   +BOOT_FROM uart
>>    DESTADDR 00600000
>>    EXECADDR 006b0000
>>    NAND_BLKSZ 00000000
> 
> This is indeed not needed. The Barebox build system calls kwbimage
> twice: once to generate an image that uses the BOOT_FROM media as the
> boot media, and once to generate an image that can boot from the UART.
> The former has a .kwb extension, the latter a .kwbuart extension.
> 
> Other than that, I think your tutorial is good. Is there a good place
> in Barebox to put some documentation such as this?
> 

Actually... it's a copy-paste of a something I wrote as
Documentation/boards/mvebu.txt, but never sent as a patch.

I can send it now, if you agree to double-check it and perhaps extend it
a bit :)

-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com



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