mx53 loco boot procedure

George Stefan stefan.george87 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 04:22:37 EST 2012


Hello,
How could i link barebox and zImage together?
Could you please give an example?
Regards

În data de 21 februarie 2012, 23:01, Sascha Hauer
<s.hauer at pengutronix.de>a scris:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 08:38:24PM +0200, George Stefan wrote:
> > Hello guys,
> > After  dd if=barebox.bin of=/dev/sdb bs=512 and dd
> if=arch/arm/boot/uImage
> > of=/dev/sdb bs=512 seek=768 i am getting
> >
> > Board: Freescale i.MX53 LOCO registered netconsole as cs1 eth at eth0: got
> MAC
> > address from EEPROM: 00:04:9F:01:B4:5B mci at mci0: No partition table
> found
> > Cannot reset the SD/MMC interface Malloc space: 0x7df00000 -> 0x7fefffff
> > (size 32 MB) Stack space : 0x7def8000 -> 0x7df00000 (size 32 kB) envfs:
> > wrong magic on /dev/env0 no valid environment found on /dev/env0. Using
> > default environment running /env/bin/init... Hit any key to stop
> autoboot:
> > 1 phy0: Link is up - 100/Full T DHCP client bound to address
> > 128.224.168.167 TFTP from server 128.224.168.11 ('zImage-loco' ->
> '/image')
> >
> > Wasn't the board suppose to boot from sd card by default?
> >
> > Also, i have another question. I want to replace
> >
> > /* call start_barebox with its absolute address */
> >         r = (unsigned int)&start_barebox;
> >         __asm__ __volatile__("mov pc, %0" : : "r"(r));
> >
> > &start_barebox with the actual address of the uImage practically to skip
> > all the barebox part and
> > boot only with the minimal CPU and memory setup. What do you think?
>
> You can't jump directly into uImages. It would work with a zImage, but
> how do you get your zImage from the sd card without the help of the
> bootloader? Well, you could link barebox and a zImage together, but then
> you'll realize that the internal ROM code is quite slow when reading
> data from SD cards (unless there are ways to tweak this, I don't know)
>
> What are your goals trying this?
>
> Sascha
>
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