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

[Bin Meng]

Hi Pablo,

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Pablo Fonovich <pablo_f_7 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:
> Thanks for your answer!
> So I must flash the u-boot.Rom in the spi flash, and boot from them, but I
> still can put the rest of the system in the ad and configure u-boot to load
> kernel and device-tree from sd, am I right?

Correct. x86 U-Boot can load kernel from an SD card. This is a common
U-Boot feature.

> What flashing tool would you recommend me?

Dediprog SF100.

> Thanks again
> Pablo
>

Please avoid top-posting.

> Enviado desde Outlook Mobile
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> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 6:01 PM -0700, "Bin Meng" <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> 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.
>>
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> 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.
>
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>> 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