[U-Boot] devkit8000: MMC/FAT booting problem with SPL

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Tue Nov 29 15:41:56 CET 2011


On 11/29/2011 04:11 AM, Simon Schwarz wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> there seems to be a problem in devkit8000 in combination with mmc boot.
> 
> I have this error:
> OMAP SD/MMC: 0
> reading u-boot.img
> reading u-boot.img
> Error reading cluster
> spl: error reading image u-boot.img, err - -1
> ### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
> 
> Some exploring i did some time ago showed that this error is deep in the
> FAT implementation. (a pity that i don't have my notes on this anymore)
> 
> I'am aware that there have been changes some time ago regarding FAT/SPL
> and malloc.
> 
> Is someone able to guess where the problem might be - to be true I
> didn't had a clue from the FAT code.
> 
> I will do some debugging later this day and post the results here.

The datapoint I want to raise is that I can see this with my SPL series
as well, but only on devkit8000.  Beagleboard and omap3evm are fine
booting from MMC with SPL.  Which is odd, I know.

-- 
Tom


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