On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de> wrote: > On 04/28/2016 01:16 AM, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 01:06:07AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > > > >> Enable support for booting U-Boot image from filesystem instead of some > >> random offset on the SD card. This makes the board usable by putting the > >> u-boot.img to first partition of the SD card and writing the SPL this > way: > >> $ dd if=u-boot-with-spl.imx of=/dev/sdX seek=2 bs=512 > > > > Wait, you're still writing u-boot + SPL to the device and not just SPL, > > but it's still preferring the filesystem one over the appended one? > > > > Ha, good point. I should've written the 'SPL' file instead, which is > just the SPL without U-Boot. I don't want to install U-Boot to random > offset on the SD card as it has the potential to corrupt data if the > u-boot binary changes in size. > > If I install u-boot image to random offset 138 blocks from the start of > SD card, it will boot that, otherwise it will load from FS. > > I will update the commit message with the correct info, sorry. >
Oh, we went thru this last year... http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-August/222061.html If your serious about changing "one" i.mx6 board, you need to change them "all". Otherwise leave a 1MB hole on your mmc partition and dd spl/u-boot.img as that works for ti/imx/sunxi... Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
