[U-Boot] INTEL E3900 Apollo Lake I (APL-I) with U-Boot?
Zoran Stojsavljevic
zoran.stojsavljevic at gmail.com
Wed Oct 4 05:52:21 UTC 2017
Hello to the U-Boot Community,
I am curious about the following HW/FW configuration with regards to the
U-Boot?
Did anybody managed to run the following: INTEL Atom E3900 APL-I with
U-Boot?
E3900 -> IFWI -> MBR -> U-Boot -> eLinux/YOCTO ?!
Here are some explanations regarding the terms/context:
*IFWI is the Intel FirmWare Interface, a binary blob loaded from the eMMC
boot partition that executes a secondary loader (in this case U-Boot) from
the main eMMC. IFWI blobs for the APL-I are provided by Intel and are
specific for different flavors of the MID silicon.*
*Normal IFWI eMMC boot process*
1. *On-chip boot rom inits eMMC and loads IFWI from the MMC boot
partitions*
2. *IFWI looks for OSIP header at top of eMMC (MBR boot block)*
3. *The header directs IFWI to the start, size, load address, and entry
of U-Boot in eMMC*
4. *(need clarification) If u-boot is not found, try the alt u-boot
image at 5MB into the eMMC*
5. *U-Boot is loaded into RAM and executed*
*OSIP stands for OS Image Profile, and it is nothing more and less than
INTEL name for very known old fashion MBR, considering DATA structure.*
Thank you in advance,
Zoran
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