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author | Niel Fourie <lusus@denx.de> | 2020-05-19 14:01:43 +0200 |
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committer | Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de> | 2020-07-14 11:46:04 +0200 |
commit | 26a6ed1b2e0d07c263d19bd48706a7be05f8c18d (patch) | |
tree | b1e1a85f01571dbe783a036266b5f06424bdb9e7 /board/phytec/pcm058/README | |
parent | 7e64182ef402f5e74c1a1c0a39ef88d52cbd0d65 (diff) |
arm: imx6q: pcm058: Convert pcm058 to use DM with DTs
Convert pcm058 support to use device trees and the driver model.
Add rudimentary boot scripts to the environment, expand README.
Signed-off-by: Niel Fourie <lusus@denx.de>
Cc: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'board/phytec/pcm058/README')
-rw-r--r-- | board/phytec/pcm058/README | 51 |
1 files changed, 51 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/board/phytec/pcm058/README b/board/phytec/pcm058/README index 3327135645..02be0994fc 100644 --- a/board/phytec/pcm058/README +++ b/board/phytec/pcm058/README @@ -33,3 +33,54 @@ is present, then the RBL tries to load SPL from the SD Card, if not, RBL loads from SPI-NOR. The SPL tries then to load from the same device where SPL was loaded (SD or SPI). Booting from NAND is not supported. + +Flashing U-Boot onto an SD card +------------------------------- + +After a successful build, the generated SPL and U-boot binaries can be copied +to an SD card. Adjust the SD card device as necessary: + +$ sudo dd if=u-boot-with-spl.imx of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1k seek=1 + +This is equivalent to separately copying the SPL and U-boot using: + +$ sudo dd if=SPL of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1k seek=1 +$ sudo dd if=u-boot-dtb.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1k seek=197 + +The default bootscripts expect a kernel fit-image file named "fitImage" in the +first partition and Linux ext4 rootfs in the second partition. + +Flashing U-boot to the SPI Flash, for booting Linux from NAND +------------------------------------------------------------- + +The SD card created above can also be used to install the SPL and U-boot into +the SPI flash. Boot U-boot from the SD card as above, and stop at the autoboot. + +Then, clear the SPI flash: + +=> sf probe +=> sf erase 0x0 0x1000000 + +Load the SPL from raw MMC into memory and copy to the SPI. The SPL is maximum +392*512-byte blocks in size therefore 0x188 blocks, totaling 0x31000 bytes: + +=> mmc read ${loadaddr} 0x2 0x188 +=> sf write ${loadaddr} 0x400 0x31000 + +Load the U-boot binary into memory and copy to the SPI. U-boot should fit into +640KiB, so 0x500 512-byte blocks, totalling 0xA0000 bytes: + +=> mmc read ${loadaddr} 0x18a 0x500 +=> sf write ${loadaddr} 0x40000 0xA0000 + +The default NAND bootscripts expect a single MTD partition named "rootfs", +which in turn contains the UBI volumes "fit" (which contains the kernel fit- +image) and "root" (which contains a ubifs root filesystem). + +The "bootm_size" variable in the environment +-------------------------------------------- + +By default, U-boot relocates the device tree towards the upper end of the RAM, +which kernels using CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y may not be able to access during early +boot. With the bootm_size variable set to 0x30000000, U-boot relocates the +device tree to below this address instead. |