On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 22:28:46 +0000 Laurence Withers <lwith...@guralp.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:54:05AM +0400, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote: > > We have an omap l138 based board without jtag and empty spi flash. > > UART is an only way to load something on this board, so we are using > > uart to load spl image u-boot and then we are using ymodem to load > > the rest part of u-boot. > > Dear Mikhail, > > I am asking mainly out of curiousity, rather than giving feedback on the > patch, but the OMAP-L138 boot ROM has the capability to load both SPL and > U-Boot into empty SPI flash using the UART and sfh program or equivalent. > (sfh is "serial flash host" for those following along, a program to talk to > the boot ROM over the UART and download some code that the boot ROM can burn > into SPI flash). > > What is the advantage in allowing the SPL to flash U-Boot also? sfh and boot rom does not understand our flash. > > Many thanks, and bye for now, > -- > Laurence Withers, <lwith...@guralp.com> http://www.guralp.com/ > Direct tel:+447753988197 or tel:+443333408643 Software Engineer > General support queries: <supp...@guralp.com> CMG-DCM CMG-EAM CMG-NAM _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
