Hi Mike, On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 02:57, Simon Glass wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 02:43, Simon Glass wrote: >>>> I am not going to get back to sandbox for a few weeks now - my next >>>> task is to get it booting from simulated SPI/MMC and see what tests >>>> can be written against that. It will become clearer then I think. >>> >>> this is a bit ambiguous ... you want to test booting from SPI flash >>> and from a card in a MMC slot ? or you want to test booting from a >>> card in a MMC slot connected via SPI ? >> >> I mean boot by loading some data, etc. from SPI-attached SPI flash and >> then loading a kernel from an SDMMC-attached MMC card and jumping to >> it. > > does the spi flash patch you posted satisfy your first part here ? > after all, the back end shouldn't matter so long as "sf" is able to > read data out of a file into memory. > otherwise, i'll try and update the spi flash patch i posted sooner > rather than later.
Yes it does satisfy that - ATM I can boot through to where it wants to load from MMC. > > as for sd/mmc, i think you might be on your own there. i only have a > passing familiarity with the spec and would have to do quite a bit of > reading/learning first. which i'm not terribly interested in doing at > this time i'm sorry to say. the patents/licensing the sd peeps have > in place make that storage medium decidedly less interesting to me, > although i might suck it up (much further down the line) considering > it seems to (sadly) be the foreseeable future of storage in embedded. > -mike > Well that's OK. I had in mind a bit of a cheat (as I did with SPI) anyway - i.e. this would be pretty trivial. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
