From 486da22967474f3f72717883a4315fda46346897 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Rini Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:13:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] board/ti/am335x/README: Document NOR programming The Beaglebone White may be populated with a memory cape that has a NOR module. Document how to program it. Signed-off-by: Tom Rini --- board/ti/am335x/README | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/board/ti/am335x/README b/board/ti/am335x/README index 6d4535233d..67b524673a 100644 --- a/board/ti/am335x/README +++ b/board/ti/am335x/README @@ -38,6 +38,29 @@ U-Boot # nand write 81000000 0 260000 U-Boot # load mmc 0 ${loadaddr} uImage U-Boot # nand write ${loadaddr} kernel 500000 +NOR +=== + +The Beaglebone White can be equiped with a "memory cape" that in turn can +have a NOR module plugged into it. In this case it is then possible to +program and boot from NOR. Note that due to how U-Boot is architectured we +must build a specific version of U-Boot that knows we have NOR flash. This +build is named 'am335x_evm_nor'. Further, we have a 'am335x_evm_norboot' +build that will assume that the environment is on NOR rather than NAND. In +the following example we assume that and SD card has been populated with +MLO and u-boot.img from a 'am335x_evm_nor' build and also contains the +'u-boot.bin' from a 'am335x_evm_norboot' build. When booting from NOR, a +binary must be written to the start of NOR, with no header or similar +prepended. In the following example we use a size of 512KiB (0x80000) +as that is how much space we set aside before the environment, as per +the config file. + +U-Boot # mmc rescan +U-Boot # load mmc 0 ${loadaddr} u-boot.bin +U-Boot # protect off 08000000 +80000 +U-Boot # erase 08000000 +80000 +U-Boot # cp.b ${loadaddr} 08000000 ${filesize} + Falcon Mode =========== -- 2.25.1