[U-Boot] [PATCH] powerpc/p1010rdb: add readme document for p1010rdb

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed May 2 20:42:12 CEST 2012


On 05/02/2012 04:17 AM, Shengzhou Liu wrote:
> +Settings of DIP-switch
> +======================
> +  SW4[1:4]= 1111 and SW6[4]=0 for boot from 16bit NOR flash
> +  SW4[1:4]= 1000 and SW6[4]=1 for boot from 8bit NAND flash
> +  SW4[1:4]= 0110 and SW6[4]=0 for boot from SPI flash
> +Note: 1 stands for 'on', 0 stands for 'off'
> +
> +Please refer to P1010-RDB User Guide for details.

Where might one find this user guide?

> +Setting of hwconfig
> +===================
> +If FlexCAN or TDM is needed, please set "fsl_p1010mux:tdm_can=can" or
> +"fsl_p1010mux:tdm_can=tdm" explicitly in u-booot prompt as below for example:
> +setenv hwconfig "fsl_p1010mux:tdm_can=tdm;usb1:dr_mode=host,phy_type=utmi"
> +By default, don't set fsl_p1010mux:tdm_can, in this case, spi chip selection
> +is set to spi-flash instead of to SLIC/TDM/DAC and tdm_can_sel is set to TDM
> +instead of to CAN/UART1.
> +
> +
> +Build and burn u-boot to NOR flash
> +=======================================
> +1. Build u-boot.bin image
> +	export ARCH=powerpc
> +	export CROSS_COMPILE=/your_path/powerpc-linux-gnu-
> +	make P1010RDB_NOR
> +
> +2. Burn u-boot.bin into NOR flash
> +	=> tftp $loadaddr $uboot
> +	=> protect off eff80000 +$filesize
> +	=> erase eff80000 +$filesize
> +	=> cp.b $loadaddr eff80000 $filesize
> +
> +3. Check SW4[1:4]= 1111 and SW6[4]=0, then power on.
> +
> +
> +
> +Build and burn u-boot to NAND flash
> +========================================
> +1. Build u-boot.bin image
> +	export ARCH=powerpc
> +	export CROSS_COMPILE=/your_path/powerpc-linux-gnu-
> +	make P1010RDB_NAND
> +
> +2. Burn u-boot-nand.bin into NAND flash
> +	=> tftp $loadaddr $uboot-nand
> +	=> nand erase 0 $filesize
> +	=> nand write $loadaddr 0 $filesize
> +
> +3. Check SW4[1:4]= 1000 and SW6[4]=1, then power on.
> +
> +
> +
> +Build and burn u-boot to SPI flash
> +=======================================
> +1. Build u-boot-spi.bin image
> +	make P1010RDB_SPIFLASH_config; make
> +	Boot up kernel with rootfs.ext2.gz.uboot.p1010rdb
> +	Download u-boot.bin to linux and you can find some config files
> +	under /usr/share such as config_xx.dat. Do below command:
> +	boot_format config_ddr3_1gb_p1010rdb_800M.dat u-boot.bin -spi \
> +			u-boot-spi.bin
> +	to generate u-boot-spi.bin.
> +
> +2. Burn u-boot-spi.bin into SPI flash
> +	=> tftp $loadaddr $uboot-spi
> +	=> sf erase 0 100000
> +	=> sf write $loadaddr 0 $filesize
> +
> +3. Check SW4[1:4]= 0110 and SW6[4]=0, then power on.

Also describe how do select boot mode via software rather than switches,
and describe alternate NOR bank.

-Scott



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