[U-Boot] accessing eMMC boot partitions from U-Boot

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Mon Mar 13 21:40:45 UTC 2017


Hi Tim,

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Tim Harvey <tharvey at gateworks.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm working with some boards with eMMC FLASH and understand that I can
> set the fields of the PARTITION_CONFIG with the 'mmc partconf' command
> to specify what partition is used for boot. Once I do that to set the
> boot0 partition for example, how can I access that  partition from
> within u-boot via mmc read/write? In Linux the kernel provides access
> to user/boot0/boot1/rpmb via different devices, but I don't see u-boot
> doing that.

Can't you run dfu-util on the host PC to flash u-boot.imx into the eMMC?

See how we do this on warp7: board/warp7/README


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