> On Dec 17, 2014, at 23:04, Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 12:18 +0800, Chen Baozi wrote: >> Package: flash-kernel >> Version: 3.28 >> Severity: wishlist >> Tags: patch >> >> With the patch attached, TI OMAP5 uEVM board is supported. > > Thanks. > >> +Machine: TI OMAP5 uEVM board >> +Method: generic >> +U-Boot-Kernel-Address: 0x80008000 >> +U-Boot-Initrd-Address: 0x0 >> +U-Boot-Script-Address: 0x0 >> +U-Boot-Script-Name: bootscr.omap >> +Boot-Device: /dev/mmcblk1p1 >> +Boot-Kernel-Path: uImage >> +Boot-Initrd-Path: uInitrd >> +Boot-Script-Path: boot.scr >> +Required-Packages: u-boot-tools > > A few questions about u-boot on this platform: > > * Does it support the bootz command?
The default one shipped with the board, which I got last year, seems not. But I’m now using the latest upstream u-boot, which does support ‘bootz’. > * Does it support loading from "sensible" (i.e. other than FAT and > raw partitions) filesystems? (possibly via the generic load > command)? My current upstream u-boot does support. > * Is /dev/mmcblk1p1 normally mounted (perhaps on /boot) or is it a > dedicated boot partition which is not normally mounted? This is the partition when people use the external Micro-SD card as the rootfs on the board. I configured my system (debian) to mount it automatically. When I was using the old kernel last year, this partition is recognised as /dev/mmcblk0p1. With more platform driver available, the /dev/mmcblk0p1 is now considered to be the on-board nand flash, which I never used. However, with the sata driver support now, one should be able to attach a normal sata hard disk and boot the system from it. But I haven’t tried that yet. > > Ultimately what I'm getting at is, can this platform use > bootscr.uboot-generic? I'd like to try and default to that wherever > possible for new platforms. (bootscr.omap predates all of the above > facilities being generally available in u-boot AFAIK). Oh, I haven’t had tried the boot script. I just copy this field from OMAP4 Panda board, which is somehow similar as uEVM. > > On a separate note, there is no DTB-Id field. Does this mean that the > platform comes with a DTB in the firmware? No. The DTB is on the /boot too. I miss it because OMAP4 doesn’t include this field. I guess you mentioned it because it is useful for flash-kernel to generate the right bootscr.*? Cheers, Baozi
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