On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Scott M. Jones <scott@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have a Beagleboard XM rev B and needed a VFAT boot partition in order >> to boot. Will these be provided for F21 and are they still needed? > > The VFAT images are no longer provided. It should be possible, like on > the OMAP4/am33xx devices, to write the uboot to an offset on the root > of the drive, there's about 2mb left free at the beginning of the ARM > images to enable this, and get uboot to work. I've looked very briefly > at this on my xM and started to read docs to see if there was any > difference between the SoCs but I've not got very far as I've had > other more pressing things. RAW mode wasn't introduced till the omap4's bootrom. However there are now patches to boot the beagle/beaglexm (omap34xx/dm3730) from extX via u-boot. But, there's not enough sram for both vfat & extX so it's a choice you need to make. Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
