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diff --git a/board/lego/ev3/README b/board/lego/ev3/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1a50ca9d03 --- /dev/null +++ b/board/lego/ev3/README @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Summary +======= + +LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 is a toy robot produced by the LEGO Group. It is based +on the davinci da850 evm. The EV3 has a 16MB spi flash and a SDHC microSD card +reader. + +Booting +======= + +The EV3 contains a bootloader in EEPROM that loads u-boot.bin from address 0x0 +of the spi flash memory. Using the default configuration, u-boot will check to +see if there is a boot.scr file on the first FAT partition of the mmc. If there +is, it will run the script and boot the kernel from the uImage file also in +the FAT partition. Otherwise, it will load a kernel and rootfs from the flash. +The kernel must be stored at address 0x50000 on the flash and have a maximum +size of 3MiB. The rootfs must be a squasfs image and stored at 0x350000 in the +flash and have a maximum size of 9.3MiB. The flash starting at 0xCB0000 is +reserved for user data. + +Writing image to flash +====================== + +The EEPROM contains a program for uploading an image file to the flash memory. +The program is started by holding down the right button on the EV3 when powering +it on. You can also `run fwupdateboot` in the u-boot shell to reboot into this +mode. The image can then be uploaded using the official LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 +software or a 3rd party program capable of uploading a firmware file. + +If you are booting from the microSD card, it is enough to just write uboot.bin +to the flash. If you are not using a microSD card, you will need to create an +image file using the layout described above. |