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-Booting U-boot on a MXS processor
-=================================
-
-This document describes the MXS U-Boot port. This document mostly covers topics
-related to making the module/board bootable.
-
-Terminology
------------
-
-The term "MXS" refers to a family of Freescale SoCs that is composed by MX23
-and MX28.
-
-The dollar symbol ($) introduces a snipped of shell code. This shall be typed
-into the unix command prompt in U-Boot source code root directory.
-
-The (=>) introduces a snipped of code that should by typed into U-Boot command
-prompt
-
-Contents
---------
-
-1) Prerequisites
-2) Compiling U-Boot for a MXS based board
-3) Installation of U-Boot for a MXS based board to SD card
-4) Installation of U-Boot into NAND flash on a MX28 based board
-
-1) Prerequisites
-----------------
-
-To make a MXS based board bootable, some tools are necessary. The first one is
-the "elftosb" tool distributed by Freescale Semiconductor. The other one is the
-"mxsboot" tool found in U-Boot source tree.
-
-Firstly, obtain the elftosb archive from the following location:
-
- ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/tools/elftosb-10.12.01.tar.gz
-
-We use a $VER variable here to denote the current version. At the time of
-writing of this document, that is "10.12.01". To obtain the file from command
-line, use:
-
- $ VER="10.12.01"
- $ wget ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/tools/elftosb-${VER}.tar.gz
-
-Extract the file:
-
- $ tar xzf elftosb-${VER}.tar.gz
-
-Compile the file. We need to manually tell the linker to use also libm:
-
- $ cd elftosb-${VER}/
- $ make LIBS="-lstdc++ -lm" elftosb
-
-Optionally, remove debugging symbols from elftosb:
-
- $ strip bld/linux/elftosb
-
-Finally, install the "elftosb" binary. The "install" target is missing, so just
-copy the binary by hand:
-
- $ sudo cp bld/linux/elftosb /usr/local/bin/
-
-Make sure the "elftosb" binary can be found in your $PATH, in this case this
-means "/usr/local/bin/" has to be in your $PATH.
-
-2) Compiling U-Boot for a MXS based board
--------------------------------------------
-
-Compiling the U-Boot for a MXS board is straightforward and done as compiling
-U-Boot for any other ARM device. For cross-compiler setup, please refer to
-ELDK5.0 documentation. First, clean up the source code:
-
- $ make mrproper
-
-Next, configure U-Boot for a MXS based board
-
- $ make <mxs_based_board_name>_config
-
-Examples:
-
-1. For building U-boot for Denx M28EVK board:
-
- $ make m28evk_config
-
-2. For building U-boot for Freescale MX28EVK board:
-
- $ make mx28evk_config
-
-3. For building U-boot for Freescale MX23EVK board:
-
- $ make mx23evk_config
-
-4. For building U-boot for Olimex MX23 Olinuxino board:
-
- $ make mx23_olinuxino_config
-
-Lastly, compile U-Boot and prepare a "BootStream". The "BootStream" is a special
-type of file, which MXS CPUs can boot. This is handled by the following
-command:
-
- $ make u-boot.sb
-
-HINT: To speed-up the build process, you can add -j<N>, where N is number of
- compiler instances that'll run in parallel.
-
-The code produces "u-boot.sb" file. This file needs to be augmented with a
-proper header to allow successful boot from SD or NAND. Adding the header is
-discussed in the following chapters.
-
-3) Installation of U-Boot for a MXS based board to SD card
-----------------------------------------------------------
-
-To boot a MXS based board from SD, set the boot mode DIP switches according to
-to MX28 manual, section 12.2.1 (Table 12-2) or MX23 manual, section 35.1.2
-(Table 35-3).
-
-The SD card used to boot U-Boot must contain a DOS partition table, which in
-turn carries a partition of special type and which contains a special header.
-The rest of partitions in the DOS partition table can be used by the user.
-
-To prepare such partition, use your favourite partitioning tool. The partition
-must have the following parameters:
-
- * Start sector .......... sector 2048
- * Partition size ........ at least 1024 kb
- * Partition type ........ 0x53 (sometimes "OnTrack DM6 Aux3")
-
-For example in Linux fdisk, the sequence for a clear card follows. Be sure to
-run fdisk with the option "-u=sectors" to set units to sectors:
-
- * o ..................... create a clear partition table
- * n ..................... create new partition
- * p ............. primary partition
- * 1 ............. first partition
- * 2048 .......... first sector is 2048
- * +1M ........... make the partition 1Mb big
- * t 1 ................... change first partition ID
- * 53 ............ change the ID to 0x53 (OnTrack DM6 Aux3)
- * <create other partitions>
- * w ..................... write partition table to disk
-
-The partition layout is ready, next the special partition must be filled with
-proper contents. The contents is generated by running the following command
-(see chapter 2)):
-
- $ ./tools/mxsboot sd u-boot.sb u-boot.sd
-
-The resulting file, "u-boot.sd", shall then be written to the partition. In this
-case, we assume the first partition of the SD card is /dev/mmcblk0p1:
-
- $ dd if=u-boot.sd of=/dev/mmcblk0p1
-
-Last step is to insert the card into the MXS based board and boot.
-
-NOTE: If the user needs to adjust the start sector, the "mxsboot" tool contains
- a "-p" switch for that purpose. The "-p" switch takes the sector number as
- an argument.
-
-4) Installation of U-Boot into NAND flash on a MX28 based board
----------------------------------------------------------------
-
-To boot a MX28 based board from NAND, set the boot mode DIP switches according
-to MX28 manual section 12.2.1 (Table 12-2), PORT=GPMI, NAND 1.8 V.
-
-There are two possibilities when preparing an image writable to NAND flash.
-
- I) The NAND wasn't written at all yet or the BCB is broken
- ----------------------------------------------------------
- In this case, both BCB (FCB and DBBT) and firmware needs to be
- written to NAND. To generate NAND image containing all these,
- there is a tool called "mxsboot" in the "tools/" directory. The tool
- is invoked on "u-boot.sb" file from chapter 2):
-
- $ ./tools/mxsboot nand u-boot.sb u-boot.nand
-
- NOTE: The above invokation works for NAND flash with geometry of
- 2048b per page, 64b OOB data, 128kb erase size. If your chip
- has a different geometry, please use:
-
- -w <size> change page size (default 2048 b)
- -o <size> change oob size (default 64 b)
- -e <size> change erase size (default 131072 b)
-
- The geometry information can be obtained from running U-Boot
- on the MX28 board by issuing the "nand info" command.
-
- The resulting file, "u-boot.nand" can be written directly to NAND
- from the U-Boot prompt. To simplify the process, the U-Boot default
- environment contains script "update_nand_full" to update the system.
-
- This script expects a working TFTP server containing the file
- "u-boot.nand" in it's root directory. This can be changed by
- adjusting the "update_nand_full_filename" varible.
-
- To update the system, run the following in U-Boot prompt:
-
- => run update_nand_full
-
- In case you would only need to update the bootloader in future,
- see II) below.
-
- II) The NAND was already written with a good BCB
- ------------------------------------------------
- This part applies after the part I) above was done at least once.
-
- If part I) above was done correctly already, there is no need to
- write the FCB and DBBT parts of NAND again. It's possible to upgrade
- only the bootloader image.
-
- To simplify the process of firmware update, the U-Boot default
- environment contains script "update_nand_firmware" to update only
- the firmware, without rewriting FCB and DBBT.
-
- This script expects a working TFTP server containing the file
- "u-boot.sb" in it's root directory. This can be changed by
- adjusting the "update_nand_firmware_filename" varible.
-
- To update the system, run the following in U-Boot prompt:
-
- => run update_nand_firmware
-
- III) Special settings for the update scripts
- --------------------------------------------
- There is a slight possibility of the user wanting to adjust the
- STRIDE and COUNT options of the NAND boot. For description of these,
- see MX28 manual section 12.12.1.2 and 12.12.1.3.
-
- The update scripts take this possibility into account. In case the
- user changes STRIDE by blowing fuses, the user also has to change
- "update_nand_stride" variable. In case the user changes COUNT by
- blowing fuses, the user also has to change "update_nand_count"
- variable for the update scripts to work correctly.
-
- In case the user needs to boot a firmware image bigger than 1Mb, the
- user has to adjust the "update_nand_firmware_maxsz" variable for the
- update scripts to work properly.
--- /dev/null
+Booting U-boot on a MXS processor
+=================================
+
+This document describes the MXS U-Boot port. This document mostly covers topics
+related to making the module/board bootable.
+
+Terminology
+-----------
+
+The term "MXS" refers to a family of Freescale SoCs that is composed by MX23
+and MX28.
+
+The dollar symbol ($) introduces a snipped of shell code. This shall be typed
+into the unix command prompt in U-Boot source code root directory.
+
+The (=>) introduces a snipped of code that should by typed into U-Boot command
+prompt
+
+Contents
+--------
+
+1) Prerequisites
+2) Compiling U-Boot for a MXS based board
+3) Installation of U-Boot for a MXS based board to SD card
+4) Installation of U-Boot into NAND flash on a MX28 based board
+
+1) Prerequisites
+----------------
+
+To make a MXS based board bootable, some tools are necessary. The first one is
+the "elftosb" tool distributed by Freescale Semiconductor. The other one is the
+"mxsboot" tool found in U-Boot source tree.
+
+Firstly, obtain the elftosb archive from the following location:
+
+ ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/tools/elftosb-10.12.01.tar.gz
+
+We use a $VER variable here to denote the current version. At the time of
+writing of this document, that is "10.12.01". To obtain the file from command
+line, use:
+
+ $ VER="10.12.01"
+ $ wget ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/tools/elftosb-${VER}.tar.gz
+
+Extract the file:
+
+ $ tar xzf elftosb-${VER}.tar.gz
+
+Compile the file. We need to manually tell the linker to use also libm:
+
+ $ cd elftosb-${VER}/
+ $ make LIBS="-lstdc++ -lm" elftosb
+
+Optionally, remove debugging symbols from elftosb:
+
+ $ strip bld/linux/elftosb
+
+Finally, install the "elftosb" binary. The "install" target is missing, so just
+copy the binary by hand:
+
+ $ sudo cp bld/linux/elftosb /usr/local/bin/
+
+Make sure the "elftosb" binary can be found in your $PATH, in this case this
+means "/usr/local/bin/" has to be in your $PATH.
+
+2) Compiling U-Boot for a MXS based board
+-------------------------------------------
+
+Compiling the U-Boot for a MXS board is straightforward and done as compiling
+U-Boot for any other ARM device. For cross-compiler setup, please refer to
+ELDK5.0 documentation. First, clean up the source code:
+
+ $ make mrproper
+
+Next, configure U-Boot for a MXS based board
+
+ $ make <mxs_based_board_name>_config
+
+Examples:
+
+1. For building U-boot for Denx M28EVK board:
+
+ $ make m28evk_config
+
+2. For building U-boot for Freescale MX28EVK board:
+
+ $ make mx28evk_config
+
+3. For building U-boot for Freescale MX23EVK board:
+
+ $ make mx23evk_config
+
+4. For building U-boot for Olimex MX23 Olinuxino board:
+
+ $ make mx23_olinuxino_config
+
+Lastly, compile U-Boot and prepare a "BootStream". The "BootStream" is a special
+type of file, which MXS CPUs can boot. This is handled by the following
+command:
+
+ $ make u-boot.sb
+
+HINT: To speed-up the build process, you can add -j<N>, where N is number of
+ compiler instances that'll run in parallel.
+
+The code produces "u-boot.sb" file. This file needs to be augmented with a
+proper header to allow successful boot from SD or NAND. Adding the header is
+discussed in the following chapters.
+
+3) Installation of U-Boot for a MXS based board to SD card
+----------------------------------------------------------
+
+To boot a MXS based board from SD, set the boot mode DIP switches according to
+to MX28 manual, section 12.2.1 (Table 12-2) or MX23 manual, section 35.1.2
+(Table 35-3).
+
+The SD card used to boot U-Boot must contain a DOS partition table, which in
+turn carries a partition of special type and which contains a special header.
+The rest of partitions in the DOS partition table can be used by the user.
+
+To prepare such partition, use your favourite partitioning tool. The partition
+must have the following parameters:
+
+ * Start sector .......... sector 2048
+ * Partition size ........ at least 1024 kb
+ * Partition type ........ 0x53 (sometimes "OnTrack DM6 Aux3")
+
+For example in Linux fdisk, the sequence for a clear card follows. Be sure to
+run fdisk with the option "-u=sectors" to set units to sectors:
+
+ * o ..................... create a clear partition table
+ * n ..................... create new partition
+ * p ............. primary partition
+ * 1 ............. first partition
+ * 2048 .......... first sector is 2048
+ * +1M ........... make the partition 1Mb big
+ * t 1 ................... change first partition ID
+ * 53 ............ change the ID to 0x53 (OnTrack DM6 Aux3)
+ * <create other partitions>
+ * w ..................... write partition table to disk
+
+The partition layout is ready, next the special partition must be filled with
+proper contents. The contents is generated by running the following command
+(see chapter 2)):
+
+ $ ./tools/mxsboot sd u-boot.sb u-boot.sd
+
+The resulting file, "u-boot.sd", shall then be written to the partition. In this
+case, we assume the first partition of the SD card is /dev/mmcblk0p1:
+
+ $ dd if=u-boot.sd of=/dev/mmcblk0p1
+
+Last step is to insert the card into the MXS based board and boot.
+
+NOTE: If the user needs to adjust the start sector, the "mxsboot" tool contains
+ a "-p" switch for that purpose. The "-p" switch takes the sector number as
+ an argument.
+
+4) Installation of U-Boot into NAND flash on a MX28 based board
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+To boot a MX28 based board from NAND, set the boot mode DIP switches according
+to MX28 manual section 12.2.1 (Table 12-2), PORT=GPMI, NAND 1.8 V.
+
+There are two possibilities when preparing an image writable to NAND flash.
+
+ I) The NAND wasn't written at all yet or the BCB is broken
+ ----------------------------------------------------------
+ In this case, both BCB (FCB and DBBT) and firmware needs to be
+ written to NAND. To generate NAND image containing all these,
+ there is a tool called "mxsboot" in the "tools/" directory. The tool
+ is invoked on "u-boot.sb" file from chapter 2):
+
+ $ ./tools/mxsboot nand u-boot.sb u-boot.nand
+
+ NOTE: The above invokation works for NAND flash with geometry of
+ 2048b per page, 64b OOB data, 128kb erase size. If your chip
+ has a different geometry, please use:
+
+ -w <size> change page size (default 2048 b)
+ -o <size> change oob size (default 64 b)
+ -e <size> change erase size (default 131072 b)
+
+ The geometry information can be obtained from running U-Boot
+ on the MX28 board by issuing the "nand info" command.
+
+ The resulting file, "u-boot.nand" can be written directly to NAND
+ from the U-Boot prompt. To simplify the process, the U-Boot default
+ environment contains script "update_nand_full" to update the system.
+
+ This script expects a working TFTP server containing the file
+ "u-boot.nand" in it's root directory. This can be changed by
+ adjusting the "update_nand_full_filename" varible.
+
+ To update the system, run the following in U-Boot prompt:
+
+ => run update_nand_full
+
+ In case you would only need to update the bootloader in future,
+ see II) below.
+
+ II) The NAND was already written with a good BCB
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ This part applies after the part I) above was done at least once.
+
+ If part I) above was done correctly already, there is no need to
+ write the FCB and DBBT parts of NAND again. It's possible to upgrade
+ only the bootloader image.
+
+ To simplify the process of firmware update, the U-Boot default
+ environment contains script "update_nand_firmware" to update only
+ the firmware, without rewriting FCB and DBBT.
+
+ This script expects a working TFTP server containing the file
+ "u-boot.sb" in it's root directory. This can be changed by
+ adjusting the "update_nand_firmware_filename" varible.
+
+ To update the system, run the following in U-Boot prompt:
+
+ => run update_nand_firmware
+
+ III) Special settings for the update scripts
+ --------------------------------------------
+ There is a slight possibility of the user wanting to adjust the
+ STRIDE and COUNT options of the NAND boot. For description of these,
+ see MX28 manual section 12.12.1.2 and 12.12.1.3.
+
+ The update scripts take this possibility into account. In case the
+ user changes STRIDE by blowing fuses, the user also has to change
+ "update_nand_stride" variable. In case the user changes COUNT by
+ blowing fuses, the user also has to change "update_nand_count"
+ variable for the update scripts to work correctly.
+
+ In case the user needs to boot a firmware image bigger than 1Mb, the
+ user has to adjust the "update_nand_firmware_maxsz" variable for the
+ update scripts to work properly.
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