[U-Boot] Galileo instructions

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Sep 14 14:45:18 CEST 2015


Hi Bin,

On 13 September 2015 at 03:28, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 5:06 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> Hi Bin,
>>
>> I have a Galileo Gen 2 and am trying to get U-Boot to start on it. The
>> first problem I have is that the schematic says the chip is a W25Q64FV
>> which I think is an 8MB part, but the image produced is only 1MB.
>
> Yes, the board has an 8MB SPI flash, but U-Boot (u-boot.rom) only
> utilizes the last 1MB.
>
>>
>> Also I know that there is a Gen 1 and a Gen 2. I recall you saying
>> that U-Boot supports the Gen 2 but can easily support the Gen 1. But
>> perhaps I have done something wrong.
>>
>
> I've verified U-Boot can boot on both gen1 and gen2 boards.

Thanks.
>
>> I downloaded the BSP from here:
>>
>> https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/23197/Intel-Quark-BSP
>>
>> File name: Board_Support_Package_Sources_for_Intel_Quark_v1.1.0.7z
>> Version: 1.1.0 (Latest)
>>
>> Date: 03/03/2015
>> Size: 2.72 MB
>>
>> Any hints? I am using a dediprog em100 with a test clip over the flash chip.
>>
>
> It's not clear to me what issue you got. It looks like there might be
> some issue for dediporg em100 to handle the rom size mismatch? If this
> is the case, you can just create an 8MB u-boot.rom with the 1MB
> version with other 7MB filled up with 0xFFs.

OK I did this and it works, thanks. Why don't we just change the ROM
size? This point is not mentioned in README.x86.

Regards,
Simon


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