On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: > >> > sorry, i phrased that question badly. obviously, i can always >> > upgrade u-boot on my rev B, but i assume there was a point in the >> > recent past where the onboard bootrom could handle the dd'ed >> > MLO/u-boot.img, and that's *not* something i could update. >> > >> > given that my BBBs were purchased a while back, i suspect i >> > don't have that feature in the bootrom. eh, time to pick up some >> > rev Cs. >> >> All "am335x" have that feature in the bootrom.. It was added back >> when the omap4 came out (I've heard even the dm81xx had it, but i >> never had one of those boards..) >> >> So yes, even the BBB "B"'s and the BBW's with there ES1.x silicon >> fully support it... > > huh ... i guess i just never read closely enough to know about those > options. so, regarding this: > > http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:U-boot_partitioning_layout_2.0#Boot_Partition_.28omap4.2B_.28am335x.29.29 > > as you say, the only real benefit to moving the MLO and u-boot.img > outside of a partition is to keep people from accidentally wiping them > out, is that it? other than that, there's no effective difference, > correct?
Correct.. There's no difference in the build, those files could either be copied to a fat partition or dd'ed... It also allows single partition setup's. ;) Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
