On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. > > Oh interesting, so that means we can put the u-boot/MLO on a ext4 > /boot partition (partition 1) and have it work? If not how does this > work? Build u-boot with "CONFIG_SPL_EXT_SUPPORT" enabled: http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=592f922261993bad8cfb96395342e25eda6776e3 Here's the notes: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/196158 Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
