[PATCH] doc: bcm283x: update documentation for Raspberry Pi

Roland Hieber r.hieber at pengutronix.de
Tue Jan 30 03:25:23 PST 2018


The old way does not seem to work for RPi 3, as the UART pins are
mapped differently and the NOOBS bootcode does not seem to read a
config.txt.

Signed-off-by: Roland Hieber <r.hieber at pengutronix.de>
---
 Documentation/boards/bcm2835.rst | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/boards/bcm2835.rst b/Documentation/boards/bcm2835.rst
index 13cebb01c4..1a78cfba3c 100644
--- a/Documentation/boards/bcm2835.rst
+++ b/Documentation/boards/bcm2835.rst
@@ -1,17 +1,35 @@
-Broadcom BCM2835
+Broadcom BCM283x
 ================
 
 Raspberry Pi
 ------------
 
-  1. Prepare a card with a FAT filesystem. Download a tiny NOOBS LITE
-     zip archive and unpack it into FAT partition.
-     See http://www.raspberrypi.org/help/noobs-setup/ for details.
+  1. Prepare an SD or microSD card with a FAT filesystem of at least 30 MB in size.
+       
+  2. Download the `Raspberry Pi firmware`_ (120 MB), unzip it, and copy the
+     contents of the ``boot/`` folder to your card.
 
-  2. Compile ``barebox.bin`` image (use ``rpi_defconfig``).
-     Copy it to the SD/microSD card and name it ``recovery.img``.
+  3. Use ``make rpi_defconfig; make`` to build barebox. This will create the following images:
 
-  3. Connect to board's UART (115200 8N1);
+     - ``images/barebox-raspberry-pi-1.img`` for the BCM2835/ARM1176JZF-S (Raspberry Pi 1)
+     - ``images/barebox-raspberry-pi-2.img`` for the BCM2836/CORTEX-A7 (Raspberry Pi 2)
+     - ``images/barebox-raspberry-pi-3.img`` for the BCM2837/CORTEX-A53 (Raspberry Pi 3, Raspberry Pi Zero)
+    
+     Copy the respective image for your model to your SD card and name it
+     ``barebox.img``.
+
+  4. Create a text file ``config.txt`` on the SD card with the following content::
+
+         kernel=barebox.img
+         enable_uart=1
+         dtoverlay=pi3-miniuart-bt
+
+     (For more information, refer to the `documentation for config.txt`_.)
+
+  5. Connect to board's UART (115200 8N1);
      Use PIN6 (GND), PIN8 (UART_TX), PIN10 (UART_RX) pins.
 
-  4. Turn board's power on.
+  6. Turn board's power on.
+
+.. _Raspberry Pi firmware: https://codeload.github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/zip/80e1fbeb78f9df06701d28c0ed3a3060a3f557ef
+.. _documentation for config.txt: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt/
-- 
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