On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 10:49 -0400, Philippe Clérié wrote: > On 06/11/2013 09:56 AM, Eric Cooper wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 08:46:01AM -0400, Philippe Clérié wrote: > >> [...] > >> Help does not list a _nand_ command and there does not seem to be a > >> likely replacement. > >> > >> Are there other options? > > > > You should be able to do the equivalent from Linux, using nandwrite from > > mtd-utils. > > > > Maybe I panicked to soon. There are other instructions that seem closer > to the mark, notably at: > http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ubootUpgradeInstructions/index.en.html. > > It seems that the correct command to use is _sf_. Right now, I am trying > to figure out where to load the new u-boot image. It looks something > like this: > > usb start > fatload usb 2:1 0x6400000 u-boot.kwb > sf probe 0:0 > sf erase 0x0 0x100000 > sf write 0x6400000 0x0 (length of u-boot.kwb in Hex) > > Now if I could get confirmation that this set of commands will in fact > work... :-)
I went through this pain a few weeks ago, see the archives [1] for the full saga and the help I got from this list. The upshot is that the commands you quote above from the FreedomBox site should work. I managed to brick my plug when I first tried so might have mistyped something, but those same commands worked after I eventually de-brucked the DreamPlug. I do note the size to erase is twice that mentioned by one of the respondents to my thread [2], and I'm not sure what I used in the end. Not sure that it would make much difference, unless the bigger value also makes sure any on U-Boot environment is erased. To add to the confusion, at boot, U-Boot shows SF: Detected MX25L1606 with page size 256, total 1 MiB and 1MiB is 0x100000, but the datasheet for the MX25L1606 says it's 16Mib i.e. 2MiB. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2013/05/msg00091.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2013/05/msg00103.html -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1370974685.3237.15.ca...@computer5.home
