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From: "Jan Lübbe" <jlu@pengutronix.de>
To: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>,
	Mihaita Ivascu <mihaita_ivascu@trimble.com>,
	linux@rempel-privat.de
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org, bst@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: MFGtools support in barebox
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:53:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1531993986.3511.144.camel@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0520cae6-02f5-349f-50ad-947079618d33@pengutronix.de>

On Thu, 2018-07-19 at 07:08 +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> >           Aside from this issue, are you aware of any method of
> > flashing the barebox  on NAND from Linux(after the kernel was loaded
> > successfully on the target) ?
> > barebox_update does not exist in Linux obviously and porting it is not
> > so trivial, on top of that I don't think I am able to access the nand
> > device from Linux, but only MTD partitions .
> > I have tried  nandwrite and kobs-ng commands but I was not successful.
> 
> barebox_update is a wrapper to: take a image and write it to predefined
> project or board specific location.
> If you have access to this location from linux, you can do it from linux
> as well.

Note that i.MX6, barebox_update also generates additional headers for
the ROM loader (such as a small bad block table). A raw barebox image
without these headers cannot be booted by the ROM from NAND. This is
the reason why simple nandwrite doesn't work.

Regards,
Jan
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-19  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-18 12:05 Mihaita Ivascu
2018-07-18 13:01 ` Oleksij Rempel
2018-07-18 13:53   ` Bastian Stender
2018-07-18 14:56     ` Jan Lübbe
2018-07-18 15:11       ` Mihaita Ivascu
2018-07-18 16:35         ` Oleksij Rempel
2018-07-18 17:56           ` Mihaita Ivascu
2018-07-19  5:08             ` Oleksij Rempel
2018-07-19  9:53               ` Jan Lübbe [this message]
2018-07-19 10:08                 ` Mihaita Ivascu
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-07-18  7:39 MFGTools " Mihaita Ivascu
2018-07-20  9:11 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-07-20  9:32   ` Mihaita Ivascu
2018-07-20  9:57     ` Oleksij Rempel
2018-07-20 18:14       ` Mihaita Ivascu
2018-08-03  8:21         ` Mihaita Ivascu
2018-08-03  8:37           ` Oleksij Rempel
2018-08-03 16:37             ` Mihaita Ivascu
2018-08-03 17:10               ` Oleksij Rempel
     [not found]                 ` <CAEp+FuBAV20+TJOkGTZkbr=yOOLjR2DFN9sM+ZO+E6CgKkYeFw@mail.gmail.com>
2018-08-06  8:42                   ` Oleksij Rempel

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