On 12/08/2012 09:08 AM, Stephen Warren wrote: > I'd like to announce or remind people of some documentation and tools we > have for Tegra development. > > First up, we've just posted a few simple application notes describing > some details of how Tegra boots, the BCT format, etc. We intend to add > more articles to the series as time permits. Do let us know if there are > any burning topics you'd like covered, and I'll see if we can oblige. > You can find them at: > > ftp://download.nvidia.com/tegra-public-appnotes/index.html > > Second, a reminder of the tegrarcm tool (which has been published for a > while now). It interacts with the Tegra boot ROM of development-mode > devices to download code into SDRAM and executes it. This can be useful > for bootloader development, low-level "bricked" system recovery, etc. > It's available at: > > http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?p=tools/tegrarcm.git;a=summary > > Third, we have just taken ownership of publishing a tool named > cbootimage, which can compile a text representations of a BCT into a > binary, or combine a binary and a bootloader into a flashable image. > This tool was previous available via the ChromiumOS project. It's > available at: > > http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?p=tools/cbootimage.git;a=summary > > The latter two tools, used together with an upstream U-Boot, can be used > to create a completely Open-Source flashing system for Tegra devices; > compile U-Boot, create a flashable image using cbootimage, execute > U-Boot on the system using tegrarcm, get the flashable image onto the > system using an SD card or TFTP over the network, and use U-Boot to > write it to flash. > > Finally, we hope to publish cbootimage configuration files for NVIDIA's > Tegra reference boards in the very near future. That will complete the > picture above. > Yep. It's better to provide an example of "text representation BCT" as well so that we can use "bct_dump" to generate a binary BCT file. > Have fun! > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
