Re: MFGtools support in barebox

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On Thu, 2018-07-19 at 07:08 +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> >           Aside from this issue, are you aware of any method of
> > flashing the barebox  on NAND from Linux(after the kernel was loaded
> > successfully on the target) ?
> > barebox_update does not exist in Linux obviously and porting it is not
> > so trivial, on top of that I don't think I am able to access the nand
> > device from Linux, but only MTD partitions .
> > I have tried  nandwrite and kobs-ng commands but I was not successful.
> 
> barebox_update is a wrapper to: take a image and write it to predefined
> project or board specific location.
> If you have access to this location from linux, you can do it from linux
> as well.

Note that i.MX6, barebox_update also generates additional headers for
the ROM loader (such as a small bad block table). A raw barebox image
without these headers cannot be booted by the ROM from NAND. This is
the reason why simple nandwrite doesn't work.

Regards,
Jan
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