[U-Boot] [PATCH] imximage: Fix the bootdata.size calculation

Stefano Babic sbabic at denx.de
Wed Oct 22 10:14:20 CEST 2014


Hi Ye,

On 22/10/2014 09:38, Li Ye-B37916 wrote:

> You can look into the "Figure 8-21. Image Vector Table" in the system boot chapter of i.MX6Q manual. The bootdata.start points
> to the beginning of the destination memory, which means the bootdata.size should have IVT offset included.

Well, ok, this is an interpretation....

>  We also have checked
> the boot rom codes for this.

ok - this is the most important thing. Is it the same for all MX6 and
MX53 ?

> 
> We found this issue when booting from QSPI NOR on i.MX6SX. The u-boot runs into abnormal (crash or stop) after booting.  We checked the
> destination memory where the image is loaded to, and found hundreds of bytes at the image end are not loaded into memory. Since there
> is a 4096 bytes round in the calculation, so the image size decides if the issue can be reproduced. It is not easy to see the issue by SD boot.

ok - the only thing that it looks weird is that the issue happens now
and not with a MX6Q(D) booting from SPI-NOR. There are several boards
booting from SPI, but I have not heard about such as problems.

Best regards,
Stefano Babic


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