[PATCH] doc: board: xilinx: zynq.rst: add description how to flash a SD card

Johannes Krottmayer krjdev at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 11:01:35 CEST 2020


On 03.06.20 at 08:23,  Michal Simek wrote:
> On 02. 06. 20 17:55, Johannes Krottmayer wrote:
>> Add a short description in the ZYNQ documentation how to prepare a SD card and 
>> copy the related images to SD card.
>>
>> I think, it's necessary for the documentation to avoid such user questions
>> (like mine) in this list.
>>
>> Okay?
> 
> remove these 4 lines above from commit message and move it below ---.
> 
> And no problem to extend documentation for newcomers.

Thanks!

>>
>> Signed-off-by: Johannes Krottmayer <krjdev at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  doc/board/xilinx/zynq.rst | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/doc/board/xilinx/zynq.rst b/doc/board/xilinx/zynq.rst
>> index 6a09df1d15..e5f002af85 100644
>> --- a/doc/board/xilinx/zynq.rst
>> +++ b/doc/board/xilinx/zynq.rst
>> @@ -60,6 +60,25 @@ SLCR bootmode register Bit[3:0] values
>>  "modeboot" variable can assign any of "norboot", "sdboot" or "jtagboot"
>>  bootmode strings at runtime.
>>  
>> +Flashing
>> +--------
>> +
>> +SD Card
>> +^^^^^^^
>> +
>> +To write an image that boots from a SD card first create a FAT32 partition
>> +and a FAT32 filesystem on the SD card::
>> +
>> +        sudo fdisk /dev/sdx
>> +        sudo mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdx1
>> +
>> +Mount the SD card and copy the SPL and U-Boot to the root directory of the
>> +SD card::
>> +
>> +        sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdx /mnt
> 
> here should be /dev/sdx0
> 

Oops, sorry! But "/dev/sdx1" should be correct according to command
"sudo mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdx1".

At least on my used system. Typo?

>> +        sudo cp spl/boot.bin /mnt
>> +        sudo cp u-boot.img /mnt
>> +
>>  Mainline status
>>  ---------------
>>  
>>
> 
> Thanks,
> Michal
> 

Kind regards,
Johannes K.


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