On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 1:45 PM, rh_ <richard_hubb...@lavabit.com> wrote: > SPL* or Secondary Program Loader is what the am335 ROM loads. > The SPL is the 1st stage and the SPL then loads u-boot and u-boot is > the 2nd stage in the boot process. The u-boot loads the kernel. > > Does anyone know if a linux kernel can be made that can act like an > SPL? > > If you have done this or tried it what did you do? > > May be it's impossible because the ROM only knows how to load an SPL > and the size of that is limited to 128K-18K ~ 109K > > But maybe we could load the kernel instead of u-boot. U-boot is a > generic solution to fit many devices but it seems to me that if I > have a specific device I can load the kernel instead of u-boot. > So I would need to change maybe the SPL and maybe the kernel. > > > http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/AM335x_U-Boot_User%27s_Guide > > * we know of the SPL as the MLO unless you're loading from a > peripheral then you might know it as the spl a.k.a. u-boot-spl.bin
u-boot has mode called "falcon mode".. SPL -> Kernel (thus skipping u-boot.img) http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=doc/README.falcon;hb=HEAD Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
