[U-Boot] [PATCH] i.mx: i.mx6q: add the initial support for i.mx6q Sabre Lite board

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 15:09:49 CET 2011


On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Dirk Behme <dirk.behme at de.bosch.com> wrote:
> On 05.12.2011 14:23, Fabio Estevam wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Jason Liu <jason.hui at linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>>> +IMAGE_VERSION 2
>>> +
>>> +# Boot Device : one of
>>> +# spi, sd (the board has no nand neither onenand)
>>> +
>>> +BOOT_FROM      sd
>>
>>
>> This board does not boot from sd, only from SPI NOR.
>>
>> Could you please let me know how it was tested?
>
>
> There is a 'workaround/patch' available from Freescale which switches the
> board to SD boot. It's a small program written to the SPI NOR replacing the
> U-Boot in SPI NOR, which then itself jumps back to the SD boot routines.
> From user point of view the boards boots from SD then. With a small,
> invisible indirection via the SPI NOR.

I would be glad to test the mx6sabrelite U-boot patch if you can provide me the
FSL workaround/patch that replaces SPI NOR with SD boot.

Thanks,

Fabio Estevam


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