[U-Boot] [PATCH 5/5] arm: mvebu: db-88f6820-gp: Add SDIO/MMC SPL boot support

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Tue Jul 21 06:24:35 CEST 2015


Hi Luka,

On 20.07.2015 23:34, Luka Perkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:20:40AM +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
>> This patch adds the configuration options to boot via SDIO/MMC on the
>> Marvell DB-88F6820-GP Armada A38x board. The default boot device
>> is still SPI NOR flash.
>>
>> To enable MMC booting on this board 2 things need to be changes:
>> a) Change kwbimage.cfg
>>     BOOT_FROM   sdio
>> b) In the config header select
>>     #define CONFIG_SPL_BOOT_DEVICE	SPL_BOOT_SDIO_MMC_CARD
>>
>> The generated image needs to be copied to the first bootable MMC
>> partition:
>
> Can you please define "bootable" here? Does the partition really need to
> have bootable flag configured?

Correct. Thats how I understand it from the documentation. Trying to 
boot from a partition that did not have this "bootable" flag set did not 
work IIRC.

Thanks,
Stefan


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