It is very easy to overwrite partition on your harddrive when all you want is installing new u-boot(-SPL). Plus... figuring out needed steps for installation is not trivial, either. This automates installation, and provides safety net by checking signature on existing partition.
[I managed to overwrite partition once, and in second incident second mistake -- -EPERM -- saved my data] Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pa...@denx.de> diff --git a/tools/socfpga_install b/tools/socfpga_install new file mode 100755 index 0000000..b62d3e77 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/socfpga_install @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +#!/usr/bin/python3 + +import subprocess +import sys +import os + +print("install device ", sys.argv[1]) +device = open(sys.argv[1], "r+b") + +sig = device.read(0x44) +if sig[0x40] != 0x41 or sig[0x41] != 0x53 or \ + sig[0x42] != 0x30 or sig[0x43] != 0x31: + print("Do not see AS01 signature, do you have right partition?") + sys.exit(1) + +print("u-boot-spl.bin at ", sys.argv[2]) +spl = sys.argv[2] + +res = subprocess.check_call(["tools/mkimage", "-T", "socfpgaimage", "-d", spl, "img.tmp"]) +if res != 0: + print("mkimage failed.") + sys.exit(1) +device.seek(0) + +spl_bin = open("img.tmp", "rb").read() +if len(spl_bin) != 65536: + print("Preloader image has wrong length.") + sys.exit(1) + +device.write(spl_bin) +device.write(spl_bin) +device.write(spl_bin) +device.write(spl_bin) + +print("u-boot.img at ", sys.argv[3]) +uboot_bin = open(sys.argv[3], "rb").read() +print("Have u-boot, %d bytes" % len(uboot_bin)) +device.write(uboot_bin) +print("All done.") \ No newline at end of file -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot