On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poir...@linaro.org> wrote: > All, > > In our ongoing effort to move to an upstream-supported code base and > booting the snowball with a device tree (DT) I have change the boot > loader in the following android builds [1][2][3] to u-boot-linaro-stable > [4]. > > Once the linaro-uboot is installed in a system it won't be able to boot > images that were created at an earlier time. > > Say that build #500 has the new linaro-uboot and the image has been > installed on the emmc. Once powered this uboot will not be able to > boot build #499 that is installed on the mmc. To fix the problem, > simply install build #500 on the mmc. This is because the mmc commands > in the IK-uboot and the linaro-uboot differ. > > To install the linaro-uboot you *must* use the latest > android-linaro-media-create found here [5] until the changes get merged > in the official repository [6]. > > Something like: > > $ bzr branch lp:~mathieu.poirier/linaro-image-tools/linaro-image-tools > > Last but not least, the linaro-uboot is currently not able to save the > environment variable block to the emmc card. That work is ongoing and > the functionality expected to be part of 12.05.
That's awesome, great work together with John! Did you have any issue on the kernel/userspace side with the new boot loader? Would be nice to test the ethernet support as well, so we could start supporting PXE booting :-) Thanks! -- Ricardo Salveti de Araujo _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
