[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] mx5: Add support for DENX M53EVK

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Sun Apr 14 21:18:59 CEST 2013


Dear Wolfgang Denk,

> Dear Marek Vasut,
> 
> In message <201304141920.32212.marex at denx.de> you wrote:
> > > Just curious: which method did you use to flash the final binary into
> > > the NAND? Did you boot the kernel and used mtd-utils?
> > > 
> > > Maybe we could add such info later into a README?
> > 
> > I just wrote the resulting u-boot.nand to the 0x0 of the NAND.
> 
> This is not exactly a very precise instruction...

Use simple "nand write" to flash the resulting image to address 0x0 of the nand, 
that's all.

> How exactly do I write to NAND on a virgin (or bricked) system?
> I think Fabio's request makes a lot of sense - yes, you know how to
> do this, but I don't, and neither does the average user.

This will change anyway, as will the rest of the patchset as I will need to 
rework it on top of Benoit's patches.

> Can we
> please document this?  With sufficient detail everybody understands
> which tools you used to do this, and what the exact steps where to
> perform the operation?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Wolfgang Denk

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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