[U-Boot] u-boot on beagleboard finds incorrect memory size.

[Robert Nelson]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:42 PM, wilsonjonathan
<piercing_male at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 12:00 -0600, Robert Nelson wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Tom Rini <tom.rini at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> OMAP3530-GP ES3.1, CPU-OPP2, L3-165MHz, Max CPU Clock 720 mHz
>> >> OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
>> >> I2C:   ready
>> >> DRAM:  256 MiB
>> >> NAND:  256 MiB
>> >> MMC:   OMAP SD/MMC: 0
>> >>
>> >> The DRAM is now correct... but now to fix the NAND, it should be 512MiB.. ;)
>> >
>> > Good catch!  Can you reply with a Signed-off-by line and I'll
>> > incorporate this into u-boot-ti/master?  Thanks!
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Robert Nelson <robertcnelson at gmail.com>
>>
>> Thanks for pulling it into master so quickly.. ;)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
> Wow that was interesting :-) Not being a c programmer I think I learnt
> something. I've made the change manually and it seems to work.
>
> My question now is I think this version is significantly different to
> older versions in that it no longer loads boot.scr and executes it. So
> my obvious question is how do I get it to do that, or using the new
> system what do I need to put into, I think, uEnv.txt to get it to load
> the latest version of ubuntu-precise-pangoline.
>
> Mind you, I think that it will then baulk at the initrd script files
> which manipulate boot.scr, oh joy!

till you get use to uEnv.txt's I've got a compatibility script listed here..

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#boot.scr_-.3E_uEnv.txt

I've used it for a year, hopefully it still works as is with u-boot git..

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/