On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 11:07 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 08:12:35AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 19:42 +0100, Martin Lucina wrote: > > > There is another method which is not mentioned anywhere(!!) which I use > > > and > > > is 100% reliable, namely booting over UART using kwuartboot [2], loading > > > the new image also over UART using e.g. kermit and then flashing it. Would > > > it be worthwhile to document this somewhere? If so, where? Obviously this > > > only works for people with the JTAG unit/some other compatible UART level > > > converter. > > > > That is pretty neat, is it "just" driving the u-boot command line in an > > expect(1) like manner to start a kermit transfer or is it doing > > something clever? > > The Kirkwood SoC boots directly from the UART rather than flash if it > sees the right magic pattern during startup. A good overview is here: > http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,7852,7852
Thanks, that counts as "something clever" in my book ;-) Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
