[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 06/14] pico-imx6ul: Update the README file
Otavio Salvador
otavio at ossystems.com.br
Thu Sep 13 19:56:58 UTC 2018
From: Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>
Update the README file to take into accound the switch to SPL.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Fabio Berton <fabio.berton at ossystems.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>
---
Changes in v3: None
Changes in v2: None
board/technexion/pico-imx6ul/README | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/board/technexion/pico-imx6ul/README b/board/technexion/pico-imx6ul/README
index 2f66095097..a5415714ee 100644
--- a/board/technexion/pico-imx6ul/README
+++ b/board/technexion/pico-imx6ul/README
@@ -13,7 +13,13 @@ $ make mrproper
$ make pico-imx6ul_defconfig
$ make
-This will generate the U-Boot binary called u-boot.imx.
+This generates the SPL and u-boot.img binaries.
+
+1. Loading U-Boot via USB Serial Download Protocol
+
+Note: This method is convenient for development purposes.
+If the eMMC has already a U-Boot flashed with DFU support then
+the user can go to step 2 below in order to update U-Boot.
Put pico board in USB download mode (refer to the document
http://www.wandboard.org/images/hobbit/hobbitboard-imx6ul-reva1.pdf page 15)
@@ -24,11 +30,15 @@ Connect a USB cable between the OTG pico port and the host PC
Open a terminal program such as minicom
-Copy u-boot.imx to the imx_usb_loader folder.
+Copy SPL and u-boot.img to the imx_usb_loader folder.
+
+Load the SPL binary via USB:
-Load u-boot.imx via USB:
+$ sudo ./imx_usb SPL
-$ sudo ./imx_usb u-boot.imx
+Load the u-boot.img binary via USB:
+
+$ sudo ./imx_usb u-boot.img
Then U-Boot should start and its messages will appear in the console program.
@@ -37,12 +47,16 @@ Use the default environment variables:
=> env default -f -a
=> saveenv
+2. Flashing U-Boot into the eMMC
+
Run the DFU command:
=> dfu 0 mmc 0
-Transfer u-boot.imx that will be flashed into the eMMC:
+Flash SPL and u-boot.img into the eMMC running the following commands on a PC:
+
+$ sudo dfu-util -D SPL -a spl
-$ sudo dfu-util -D u-boot.imx -a boot
+$ sudo dfu-util -D u-boot.img -a u-boot
Then on the U-Boot prompt the following message should be seen after a
successful upgrade:
--
2.19.0
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