Aneesh, On Tuesday, March 01, 2011 8:34 PM, Bedia, Vaibhav wrote: > On Tuesday, March 01, 2011 8:20 PM, V, Aneesh wrote: >> >> For OMAP4: >> 1. An 8 byte GP header is enough for booting from external >> MMC FAT partition >> 2. A dummy CH with a dummy CHSETTINGS is essential for booting >> from the RAW partition of eMMC or external MMC. This >> works for FAT booting too. >> 3. A full configuration with proper CHSETTINGS and CHRAM will >> help us in directly booting from SDRAM avoiding the SPL, >> but this is not supported on all revisions of OMAP3/4 >> >> IMHO, let's have one image type(what John has created now) for >> (1) and (2). It doesn't really harm to have 512 bytes of >> additional header attached to your image when it makes it >> suitable for different types of booting. >> >> For 3, if that is supported in U-Boot in future, we will need >> a new image type, maybe something like omapchimage. >> >> Let me know if you had any special considerations for your >> SoC. > > I will have to check if the additional 512 bytes will cause a > problem for TI81XX GP devices. We haven't tried with the extra > 512 bytes yet. >
I checked the image with the additional 512bytes on TI81XX. It does not work. If its fine with you I'll work on using a version flag for attaching the 512byte. How about something on the lines of what was done for imximage did recently? Regards, Vaibhav _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot