Re: MFGtools support in barebox

[Mihaita Ivascu <mihaita_ivascu@trimble.com>]

Hi,

     Yes, thanks for your answer. That is true. Also I think mtd-utils
from withing Linux will not work also to update barebox mtd partition?
     I have tried using kobs-ng init command from with Linux(as an
alternative to barebox_update) and it did seem it writes additional
BBU and other tables but unfortunately would stuck at some point and
not complete the update.

Best regards,
         Mihaita
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:53 AM Jan Lübbe <jlu@pengutronix.de> wrote:
>
> 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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