On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Chen-Yu Tsai <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Jhon Yi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If this doesn't work, the only solution is to ask Merrii, or at least
>> let them provide one bootable sdcard then dd out the content and
>> search for the position.
>>
>> 2014-09-05 4:55 GMT+08:00 RFat <[email protected]>:
>>> Hi Jhon,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your suggestion. I tried:
>>> dd if=boot0_sdcard_sun9iw1p1.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1024 seek=X
>>>
>>> where X = 0, 4, 8, ..
>
> See http://linux-sunxi.org/SDK_build_howto
>
>>> and the board never showed any response - it is just booting from the nand
>>> (I presume..). Was this what you were suggesting?
>
> For me, sometimes it responds, sometimes it doesn't.
> Maybe the mmc controller is picky about cards, or the I/O pins
> are undervolted. Without a user manual and schematics ATM,
> it is hard to tell.

I have had this problem on another CPU. Notes from that board....

100ohm series resistor on all of the MMC lines with 10K pull ups

>
> When I did get a response and boot0 was loaded, boot0 then complained
> it couldn't initialize mmc0, and halted.
>
>
> ChenYu
>
>>> If anyone else have a suggestion - I'll be grateful
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, September 4, 2014 3:01:34 AM UTC+2, Jhon Yi wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I suggest that you'd better ask Merrii to give you the parameters.
>>>> Otherwise you could first try to dd the boot0 to a clean sd card from
>>>> 8kB and see if there is any print out from the serial port (just set
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> the serial port of you computer to 115200n8), if not work, move up 4kB
>>>> every trial until you see the right output. Do the seem thing to uboot
>>>> begin from the end of boot0, until you find something meaningful. Plus
>>>> good luck.
>>>>
>>>> 2014-09-04 5:00 GMT+08:00 RFat <[email protected]>:
>>>> > Hi everyone,
>>>> >
>>>> > I just got the Optimus board (by Merrii). Seems like a nice hotrod..
>>>> >
>>>> > I am trying to get u-boot running from the sdcard and I saw the
>>>> > binaries:
>>>> >
>>>> > u-boot-sun9iw1p1.bin
>>>> > boot0_sdcard_sun9iw1p1.bin
>>>> >
>>>> > in the SDK that poped up recently (A80_SDK_20140728).
>>>> >
>>>> > I guess I should be DD-ing these files to the sdcard but I am not sure
>>>> > how.
>>>> > There must be specific values for the seek option -- does anyone have a
>>>> > clue
>>>> > (I am not sure whether I am asking a trivial or a hard question..)
>>>> >
>>>> > Moreover, this board does not have a FEL or U-boot buttons like other
>>>> > boards
>>>> > - will it always look for something readable in the sdcard and then
>>>> > moves on
>>>> > the the nand?
>>>> >
>>>> > I guess everyone is very excited about the availability of these A80
>>>> > boards
>>>> > and this mysterious SDK - the sunxi community is about to have crazy
>>>> > power
>>>> > from a crazily modest device (ah, the late 80's of Acron paid off..)
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks!
>
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