On 24 October 2012 09:29, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) <t...@linaro.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 22:56 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> I >> still recommend to read the following pages to get familiar with this >> beast: >> >> https://wiki.linaro.org/PawelMoll/BootingVEMadeEasy > <snip> >> https://wiki.linaro.org/ARM/VersatileExpressSetup >> >> This page shows how to install U-Boot on a Virtual Express and that's >> what we want here. > > We've been asked to 'garden' the wiki for vexpress related things, and I > suspect pages like these are due for the chop in a matter of hours. So I > recommend people grab themselves a copy quick.
Luckily, Anmar and me agreed that we would leave the old pages there and put a huge ugly disclaimer on the top with a link redirecting to the updated content in most cases. > > The official release pages will include _some_ similar (and more up to > date information), however you won't find any mention of any bootloader > other than UEFI. And, at least for now, no mention of how to boot a > kernel other than by removing the SD card and copying it over. > > Personally (and unofficially), I find that the simplest and most > reliable way to use vexpress is to flash the kernel/dtb/initrd images > into NOR flash and use the bootmonitor supplied with the board to load > these. No you don't. The party line is: we all use UEFI. ;-) > Putting the images into NOR flash involves modifying the contents of the > on-board micro-SD card first, which can be done by mounting it over USB > from your PC, and so is easily scripted. And, if you have the > bootmonitor set to automatically run a bootscript to load the kernel > (DIP switch nearest USB cable down), then you can also use the same > method to modify this bootscript to change things like kernel > command-line args. > > As I've started now, I may as well attach my images.txt file for TC2 and > my bootscr.txt file from the internal SD card, so you get the idea. > > -- > Tixy > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-dev mailing list > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev > _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
