I just finishing improved DM355 boot from SD.
It can help you.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:57 PM, David Brownell <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've barely glanced at this so far ... but one question is
> how to test this with an existing DM355.  (Some of the code
> can be reviewed without testing, of course.)
>
> My understanding is that if I run a kernel with these patches,
> they'll want a "new style" badblock table, incompatible with
> the one understood by current u-boot.  So switching to this
> code would be a one-way migration (except see option D below).
>
> Which means that testing will pretty much involve not using
> the current NAND boot framework.  Thus either
>
>  (a) loading kernels via JTAG ... CCS only for now, though
>     maybe there's been progress on the OpenOCD front
>
>  (b) or boot from UART or MMC/SD card, sort of awkward ...
>
>  (c) new u-boot, replacing old one ... ideally 2009.01
>     version, ready for mainline u-boot  :)
>
>  (d) put a different NAND chip in the socket, use that
>     with (c) ... but supports backward migration, by
>     putting the old chip there.  The UBL might need to
>     be taught about this different NAND chip.
>
> Is that correct?
>
> - Dave
>
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