On 12-05-15 01:04 AM, Ricardo Salveti wrote: > 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!
I have not faced any issues other than having to lower the DT address in memory - Linux and Anddroid came up properly from thereon. I must specify that we currently don't boot using a DT. Regards, Mathieu. _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
