[U-Boot] FW: u-boot v2016 vs v2013

[Mehmet Ali İPİN]

Dear Estevam,

Thank you very much; With your helps managed to use u-boot 2018, gcc 7.2 and SPL, generated 
u-boot.img image and downloaded into board. 

SD card and e-MMC working well. Ethernet Phy is also answering mii info as shown below:

=> mii info
PHY 0x05: OUI = 0x0885, Model = 0x21, Rev = 0x01,  10baseT, HDX
=> setenv ipadr 10.0.0.10
=> dhcp
FEC Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete......... TIMEOUT !
Could not initialize PHY FEC
BOOTP broadcast 1
BOOTP broadcast 2
.
.
.
BOOTP broadcast 17

Retry time exceeded; starting again.

I would be grateful, if you Have any idea how can I test and solve the dhcp command?

With my best regards.

Mehmet Ali 



-----Original Message-----
From: Fabio Estevam [mailto:festevam at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 5:57 PM
To: Mehmet Ali İPİN <mehmet.ipin at pavotek.com.tr>
Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] FW: u-boot v2016 vs v2013

Hi Mehmet,

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Mehmet Ali İPİN <mehmet.ipin at pavotek.com.tr> wrote:
> Dear Estevam,
>
> Thank you for your helps. I finally managed to build u-boot-2018. With these commands:
> export 
> CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2017-q4-major/bin/arm-none-eabi
> -
>  export ARCH=arm
>  make distclean
>  make mx6sabreauto_defconfig
>  make
>
> There are u-boot, u-boot.bin, u-boot.img, ... files, but I could not see u-boot.imx file, which we use it to download to the DDR via USB, with usb_loader program.
>
> I used u-boot-2016 lately, which was generating .imx file; Do you know if we can generate it with 2018.1?

mx6sabreauto has been converted to SPL, so the generated binaries are SPL and u-boot.img.

You can flash them into the SD card like this:

- Flash the SPL binary into the SD card:

$ sudo dd if=SPL of=/dev/sdX bs=1K seek=1 && sync

- Flash the u-boot.img binary into the SD card:

$ sudo dd if=u-boot.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1K seek=69 && sync

This is described in board/freescale/mx6sabreauto/README.

You can also load SPL and u-boot.img via imx_usb_loader tool. Make sure you use their latest code and follow doc/README.sdp.