-Booting U-boot on a MX28 processor
-==================================
+Booting U-boot on a MXS processor
+=================================
-This document describes the MX28 U-Boot port. This document mostly
-covers topics related to making the module/board bootable.
+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.
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1) Prerequisites
-2) Compiling U-Boot for a MX28 based board
-3) Installation of U-Boot for a MX28 based board to SD card
-4) Installation of U-Boot into NAND flash
+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 MX28 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.
+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:
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 MX28 based board
+2) Compiling U-Boot for a MXS based board
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-Compiling the U-Boot for a MX28 board is straightforward and done as compiling
+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 MX28 based board
+Next, configure U-Boot for a MXS based board
- $ make <mx28_based_board_name>_config
+ $ make <mxs_based_board_name>_config
Examples:
$ 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 the i.MX28 CPU can boot. This is handled by the following
+type of file, which MXS CPUs can boot. This is handled by the following
command:
$ make u-boot.sb
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 MX28 based board to SD card
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+3) Installation of U-Boot for a MXS based board to SD card
+----------------------------------------------------------
-To boot a MX28 based board from SD, set the boot mode DIP switches according
-to i.MX28 manual chapter 12.2.1 (Table 12-2).
+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.
$ dd if=u-boot.sd of=/dev/mmcblk0p1
-Last step is to insert the card into MX28 based board and boot.
+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
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+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 i.MX28 manual chapter 12.2.1 (Table 12-2), PORT=GPMI, NAND 1.8 V.
+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.
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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 i.MX28 manual section 12.12.1.2 and 12.12.1.3.
+ 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
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