[U-Boot] add usb_system_autoupdate command.

Marco Cavallini koansoftware at gmail.com
Sun Nov 16 09:39:27 CET 2008


Matteo Facchinetti ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> I have add the possibility to automatic update entire flash using a USB
> pendrive.
> 
> To make it, need the following steps:
> 1) insert usb pendrive. In pendrive must be present these files:
> install.dat and the files we want to copy.
> 2) from uboot console: => usb_system_autoupdate
> 3) the system update start, reading information from install.dat file.
> 
> The install.dat file raws has this syntax:
> <file_type> "<file_name>" <star_flash_addr_partition>
> <end_flash_addr_partition>
> 
> file_type values: kernel, uboot, fdt, rootfs.
> 
> In attachment there's an example of install.dat and the source code.
> 
> Now using it on my system (mpc5200, uboot_1.3.1) but there's a problem
> that I can't fix:
> if try to update uboot partition, it freeze in line 211 when call
> do_flerase().
> 
> debugging I can see that it freeze in:
> cmd_flash.c
> 434:     printf ("Erased %d sectors\n", erased);
> after uboot partition erasing.
> 
> 
> Can you help me?

Posting output messages of the procedure may help.

Cordiali Saluti / Kindest Regards / mit freundlichen Grüssen
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