Re: Efikamx bootloader help

2011-03-10 Thread Matt Sealey
The U-Boot on gitorious is more of a nostalgia piece, we actually abandoned the repo a long time ago. I am recommending this, and hoping Linaro stick to it: Linaro, Ubuntu, Debian or any concerned distribution has absolutely NO business building or flashing U-Boot for the boards. You do not need

Re: Efikamx bootloader help

2011-02-08 Thread Eric Miao
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Loïc Minier loic.min...@linaro.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2011, Per Förlin wrote: I made a new attempt bringing up my imx today, this time I reconnected the keyboard and then I could recover u-boot without any trouble. I disconnected the keyboard when changing

Re: Efikamx bootloader help

2011-02-08 Thread Loïc Minier
hey adding my bits where I can On Tue, Feb 08, 2011, Eric Miao wrote: 2. The three possible boot up methods: a) Internal SPI NOR flash, b) the MicroSD card behind the battery and c) the normal SD card at the left side, not really sure about the situation on Efika MX (smart top)

Re: Efikamx bootloader help

2011-02-02 Thread Per Forlin
Hi Matt, I made a new attempt bringing up my imx today, this time I reconnected the keyboard and then I could recover u-boot without any trouble. I disconnected the keyboard when changing the DIP switches. BR Per On 23 January 2011 03:05, Per Forlin per.for...@linaro.org wrote: On 18 January

Re: Efikamx bootloader help

2011-02-02 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011, Per Förlin wrote: I made a new attempt bringing up my imx today, this time I reconnected the keyboard and then I could recover u-boot without any trouble. I disconnected the keyboard when changing the DIP switches. Per, upstream u-boot got support in git for efikamx some

Re: Efikamx bootloader help

2011-01-22 Thread Per Forlin
On 18 January 2011 15:03, Matt Sealey m...@genesi-usa.com wrote: Per, The file you need is in the first partition of the SD card you downloaded - I believe I made an 8MB space at the front of the updater card to put U-Boot there for these kinds of rescues. You just need to   dd

Re: Efikamx bootloader help

2011-01-19 Thread Matt Sealey
Okay we can make an SD card that will force a U-Boot update and power down easily.. -- Matt Sealey m...@genesi-usa.com Product Development Analyst, Genesi USA, Inc. On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Per Forlin per.for...@linaro.org wrote: Hi Matt, On 18 January 2011 15:03, Matt Sealey

Re: Efikamx bootloader help

2011-01-19 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011, Matt Sealey wrote: Okay we can make an SD card that will force a U-Boot update and power down easily.. This would be awesome! Speaking for other Linaro needs, it would be nice if we could reproduce this build ourselves as to allow us to create special purpose u-boots.

Re: Efikamx bootloader help

2011-01-18 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011, Per Förlin wrote: If I mess up the u-boot in my efikamx smart book how can I install a new one? I tried booting with an SD-card image from http://www.powerdeveloper.org/asset/by-id/116. I guess this only works if I have a working u-boot in place. I don't have the

Re: Efikamx bootloader help

2011-01-18 Thread Matt Sealey
Per, The file you need is in the first partition of the SD card you downloaded - I believe I made an 8MB space at the front of the updater card to put U-Boot there for these kinds of rescues. You just need to dd if=u-boot-2009.01-2.0.6-efikasb of=/dev/mmcblk0 skip=1 seek=1 bs=1024 The DIP

Efikamx bootloader help

2011-01-17 Thread Per Forlin
Hi, If I mess up the u-boot in my efikamx smart book how can I install a new one? I tried booting with an SD-card image from http://www.powerdeveloper.org/asset/by-id/116. I guess this only works if I have a working u-boot in place. I don't have the serial/JTAG connector. Is this what I need in