On 14 May 2012 15:24, 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.
Mathieu, would you sync with Fathi and get this info up on android-build? > 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. What problem does this cause? > Find me on IRC if you have any questions. > > Regards, > Mathieu. > > [1]. > https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/snowball-ics-gcc47-igloo-tracking-blob > [2]. > https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/snowball-ics-gcc47-igloo-stable-blob > [3]. > https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/snowball-ics-gcc46-igloo-stable-blob > [4]. http://git.linaro.org/git/boot/u-boot-linaro-stable.git > [5]. > https://code.launchpad.net/~mathieu.poirier/linaro-image-tools/linaro-image-tools > [6]. https://code.launchpad.net/linaro-image-tools > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-android mailing list > linaro-andr...@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-android -- Zach Pfeffer Android Platform Team Lead, Linaro Platform Teams Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
