Re: iMX6 EOMA-68 CPU Card
Guys:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:51:13AM +0000, luke.leighton wrote:
>> http://rhombus-tech.net/freescale/iMX6/news/
>
> I know the iMX53 boots from SD. Not sure what the iMX6 boots from.
> As long as I can use SATA for my filesystem and only have to put the
> boot loader somewhere (although on SATA would be by far the most ideal),
> then NAND flash is of no interest what so ever.
My vote would go in the exact opposite direction: the board has to
boot from NAND (or eMMC), and then step over to SATA if present.
Among other things, that makes it realistic that a new developer boots
it by merely plugging in the USB cable for the serial console.
And don't go all u-boot on me, either, except as a quick jump to a
Linux kernel+initramfs that most developers will see as the real
"bootloader". That lets you use usb-storage to manage the NAND
partitions, SATA if connected, SSH/telnet to the "bootloader", and so
on. And then kexec to the developer's kernel if they provide their
own. And manpages for same.
That way, all the bad parts of u-boot et. al never see the light of
day. As it should be. :-)
Viola! Much easier to work with than a lot of existing hardware, and
darned unlikely to brick as well.
Disclaimer: the above describes how I do my boards. Get me one of
these, and I'll show you. I also make pretty extensive use of
multistrap et. al from the embedded Debian project, to keep the target
filesystem AND developer tools in sync.
This isn't me self-promoting (ok, not much). Rather, Debian is just
MADE to make this stuff awesome. I'm merely a lowly user thereof.
b.g.
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Bill Gatliff
bgat@billgatliff.com
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