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Re: armhf Installer Image



On 2014-11-15, Rainer Dorsch <ml@bokomoko.de> wrote:
> On Saturday 15 November 2014 11:51:05 Karsten Merker wrote:

> What is the difference between u-boot-spl.bin and SPL in
...
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  31744 Nov  2 01:32 SPL
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 302872 Nov  2 01:32 uboot.elf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236248 Nov  2 01:32 u-boot.img
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  25665 Nov  2 01:32 u-boot-spl.bin

SPL is the u-boot-spl.bin with some headers added, last I looked. I
don't know if u-boot-spl.bin is useful itself.


> So far I always used SPL which worked for me:
>
> blackbox:~#  dd if=/mnt/tmp/usr/lib/u-boot/mx6_cubox-i/SPL of=/dev/sdX bs=1K 
> seek=1
> blackbox:~# dd if=/mnt/tmp/usr/lib/u-boot/mx6_cubox-i/u-boot.img of=/dev/sdX 
> bs=1K seek=42

Yup, that looks right. You definitely want to dd the SPL file.


>> Regarding the hd-media support: as Vagrant wrote that he has
>> patched some support for the new common u-boot bootcmd handling
>> into the i.MX6 u-boot.img in sid, this should hopefully work, but
>> due to lack of i.MX6 hardware I have never tested that.

It's essentially emulates the config_distro_bootcmd.h by setting the
same variables to appropriate values. Long-term, I'd like to see these
platforms actually switch over fully...


live well,
  vagrant

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