[U-Boot] Using u-boot to update the kernel and root-file system on NAND chip on imx28evk from USB memory stick
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Sat Aug 11 01:26:52 CEST 2012
On 08/08/2012 04:33 PM, Bill wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm needing the ability to upgrade the kernel and root-filesystem on
> the NAND chip on the imx28evk from new files that reside on a USB memory
> stick. That is I want to partition the NAND (mtd) into 3 sections that
> contain u-boot, kernel, rootfs. Then whenever the system is booted,
> u-boot will probe the USB memory stick (using fatls and looking for a
> kernel file and rootfs file) If the files exist on the USB memory
> stick, uboot will automatically (first it will verify a CRC/Checksum)
> erase the kernel and rootfs sections on the NAND chip, and then copy the
> new kernel and rootfs from the USB stick to their respective sections in
> the flash chip (I think using fatload)?. It will never write a new u-boot.
>
> I've also seen where u-boot can define the NAND flash partitions
> using the mtdparts command and pass these along to the kernel via
> command line args?
>
> Can u-boot write/erase to a nand partition (i.e. /dev/mtd0) instead
> of using absolute memory addresses?
If you use U-Boot's mtdparts support, you can reference partitions by
name (mtdparts name, not Linux device node name) in NAND commands.
-Scott
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