NAND boot mode on AM335x EVM has been verified, and steps to use it has been documented and update in this README
Signed-off-by: Pekon Gupta pekon@ti.com Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard jacmet@sunsite.dk --- board/ti/am335x/README | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/board/ti/am335x/README b/board/ti/am335x/README index 67b5246..941dfbb 100644 --- a/board/ti/am335x/README +++ b/board/ti/am335x/README @@ -20,23 +20,48 @@ NAND The AM335x GP EVM ships with a 256MiB NAND available in most profiles. In this example to program the NAND we assume that an SD card has been inserted with the files to write in the first SD slot and that mtdparts -have been configured correctly for the board. As a time saving measure we -load MLO into memory in one location, copy it into the three locatations -that the ROM checks for additional valid copies, then load U-Boot into -memory. We then write that whole section of memory to NAND. - -U-Boot # mmc rescan -U-Boot # env default -f -a -U-Boot # nand erase.chip -U-Boot # saveenv -U-Boot # load mmc 0 81000000 MLO -U-Boot # cp.b 81000000 81020000 20000 -U-Boot # cp.b 81000000 81040000 20000 -U-Boot # cp.b 81000000 81060000 20000 -U-Boot # load mmc 0 81080000 u-boot.img -U-Boot # nand write 81000000 0 260000 -U-Boot # load mmc 0 ${loadaddr} uImage -U-Boot # nand write ${loadaddr} kernel 500000 +have been configured correctly for the board. All images are first loaded +into memory, then written to NAND. + +Step-1: Building u-boot for NAND boot + Set following CONFIGxx options for NAND device. + CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE number of main bytes in NAND page + CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE number of OOB bytes in NAND page + CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE number of bytes in NAND erase-block + CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS ECC map for NAND page + CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSCHEME ECC scheme used by NAND + 0 - HAM1_SW + 1 - HAM1_HW + 2 - BCH4_SW (unsupported) + 3 - BCH4_HW (unsupported) + 4 - BCH8_SW + 5 - BCH8_HW + +Step-2: Flashing NAND via MMC/SD + # select BOOTSEL to MMC/SD boot and boot from MMC/SD card + U-Boot # mmc rescan + # erase flash + U-Boot # nand erase.chip + U-Boot # env default -f -a + U-Boot # saveenv + # flash MLO. Redundant copies of MLO are kept for failsafe + U-Boot # load mmc 0 0x82000000 MLO + U-Boot # nand write 0x82000000 0x00000 0x20000 + U-Boot # nand write 0x82000000 0x20000 0x20000 + U-Boot # nand write 0x82000000 0x40000 0x20000 + U-Boot # nand write 0x82000000 0x60000 0x20000 + # flash u-boot.img + U-Boot # load mmc 0 0x82000000 u-boot.img + U-Boot # nand write 0x82000000 0x80000 0x60000 + # flash kernel image + U-Boot # load mmc 0 0x82000000 uImage + U-Boot # nand write 0x82000000 ${nandsrcaddr} ${nandimgsize} + # flash filesystem image + U-Boot # load mmc 0 0x82000000 filesystem.img + U-Boot # nand write 0x82000000 {loadaddress} 0x300000 + +Step-3: Set BOOTSEL pin to select NAND boot, and POR the device. + The device should boot from images flashed on NAND device.
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