[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/14] Nokia RX-51 support

Pali Rohár pali.rohar at gmail.com
Thu Jan 26 17:39:13 CET 2012


On Thursday 26 January 2012 11:25:59 Sergey Lapin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:00:34PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > 
> > What do you mean, you don't need xloader, u-boot SPL can replace it.
> 
> Yes and no. No, becaue you nor I have no Nokia's signing key(s) to sign
> SPL binary for OMAP's secure boot ROM. IIRC N950/N9 is even more strict
> regarding that, am I right?

You are right, we cannot sign SPL binary for N900 because we do not have key. 
Signing key has only somebody in Nokia (or in TI). I do not have N950/N9 so I 
do not know anything about new devices.

> > 
> > I know. So ... ? Basically you can use the TI flashes too since it all
> > goes
> > through the bootrom, right?
> 
> Butrom requires signed binary.
> 

Yes and format of signed binary is not published by TI (there are only some RE 
info about Motorola Omap devices).

> > > What I tried:
> > > I created mtd image where was X-Loader, NOLO and U-Boot. QEmu RX51
> > > successfull booted this image and I got serial console and video screen
> > > output.
> > > 
> > > But when I created mtd image where was only X-Loader an U-Boot, QEmu
> > > RX51
> > > was unable to boot (it freezed).
> > 
> > Why? Where? You know you can debug U-Boot in QEMU with GDB and diag the
> > problem properly?
> 
> Any volunteers? (I own N900 too, ah, I own 3 of tham, damnit)
> 

I can try to play with SPL U-Boot binary and X-Loader in qemu. But this and 
next month I do not have time for it...

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar at gmail.com
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