On 6 April 2015 at 23:16, Paul Kocialkowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Le lundi 06 avril 2015 à 23:13 +0200, Paul Kocialkowski a écrit : >> (Resent from the correct address, sorry) >> >> I fancied the idea of using a GPT/EFI partition table for sdcards used >> on sunxi devices, but it seems that GPT takes the first 34 sectors of >> the card (with sectors of 512B, that's the first 17kiB), while the >> U-Boot SPL starts at sector 16 (that's at 8kiB), so there is a conflict >> here. >> >> Is anyone aware of another offset from which U-Boot SPL could be load by >> the bootrom? I have started reverse engineering the bootrom code to find >> out if there is such a thing in place (which I very much doubt, but who >> knows, maybe Allwinner thought about this), but I'd appreciate any info >> before spending too much time on it. > > Oh, and needless to mention that the user manuals provide nothing useful > about the boot process. Maybe I should just go and ask Allwinner people > directly… >
This is what is known about the boot rom with links to dissassembled routines: http://linux-sunxi.org/BROM HTH Michal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" 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.
