Hi Chris, thank you for sharing this. Your contribution is very much welcome!
Best regards Stefan On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 12:44:15PM +0100, Chris Hofer wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I recently wanted to test the Armv8 virtualization introduced in the 19.11 > release on hardware. I ran into a limitation of the preinstalled u-boot on > the i.MX8-evk board. > > After I loaded the uImage to a reasonable address (e.g. 0x60000000), I > executed it with bootm 0x60000000. However, the preinstalled u-boot refused > to execute it, since a config-parameter (CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN) limits the > max. size of a bootable image and mine was too large. > > Stefan confirmed this issue and pointed me to position [1] in the release > notes 20.02; it shows how to build a modified u-boot version without this > (and other) limitation(s) and flash it to an SD card. Once u-boot is on the > card, one may have to change the default boot-mode of the board from > internal flash to SD card, by changing the boot mode pads on the board > according to [2]. > > I just wanted to share this with you, in case you run into the same issue. > > > Best, > > Chris Hofer > > > [1] https://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/20.02#USB_and_Input > > [2] https://community.nxp.com/docs/DOC-343178 > > > _______________________________________________ > Genode users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.genode.org/listinfo/users -- Stefan Kalkowski Genode labs https://github.com/skalk | https://genode.org _______________________________________________ Genode users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.genode.org/listinfo/users
