[U-Boot] U-Boot for Galileo Gen 1 Board

[Bin Meng]

Hi Pablo,

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:22 AM, Pablo Fonovich <Pablo_F_7 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I previously worked with u-boot for beaglebone black for booting a custom
> linux system. Now the university got a donnation of some galileo boards, and
> we want to do something similar.
>
> The problem is that we don't know what we need to put into the sd card to
> make the board boot from it... With beaglebone i had to copy the u-boot.img
> and MLO, but is not the same with galileo an we don't know where to find
> that information.
>

You need a SPI flash programmer to burn u-boot.rom into the SPI flash.
Unlike most ARM boards, U-Boot boots directly from reset vector on IA,
thus there is no way to put u-boot.rom on an SD card and let the
processor boot from there.

>
> We used galileo_defconfig and instructions in README_x86 for building
> u-boot, but now we do not know how to proceed. Anyone could give me some
> hints?
>

Regards,
Bin