On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Hamo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Bari Ari <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://www.mini-box.com/mini2440v2 is an old ARM9 dev board that is still >> readily available the uses a 2MB NOR Flash for init and bootloader. Most ARM >> systems that will make use of coreboot won't have a separate SPI or NOR >> flash to hold the init and bootloader. But you have to start somewhere. >> We'll just have to make this work from on-board NAND, eMMC or SD Card later. > > If we don't add romstage to the romfile and don't compress the > ramstage since the decompress code is too big for bootblock we can > boot from the NAND Flash or SD card. In the ramstage, we init the > Flash controller so that we can read the payload and kernel from the > NAND flash later. > I don't test my thought yet. Maybe it doesn't work for that I may > assume something like we have a romstage in my code.
Why would you exclude romstage? What will setup the RAM? bootblock? i suspect that the stuff you are doing in bootblock should be done in romstage. Marc -- http://se-eng.com -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
