On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 01:46:40PM -0500, Richard Retanubun wrote:
Hi guys,
Recap: I am trying to boot MLO + uboot from eMMC boot partition on DRA7xx_EVM eval platform. SW-Baseline: uboot p-ti-uboot-2013.04 & p-ti-linux-3.8.y from omapzoom.
Please note that this list is for the mainline U-Boot tree, and to contact your TI reps for help with the TI trees. I'm answering in general since I know how the mainline code works, and what I suspect needs doing there in general to allow what you want to work:
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- I realize that the MLO contents (using uboot/tools/omapimage?) needed to say MMCSD_MODE_RAW for my platform. I am bypassing this problem by by hard coding the response arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/boot-common.c::spl_boot_mode() to always says MMCSD_MODE_RAW. This seems to work and I am past the hang() code.
It's possible that the ROM simply doesn't support a dos-style partition table and a FAT partition on the eMMC boot partition so the right answer here is to do what you're doing and hard-code raw only. I strongly suspect this to be true, even.
- Now, MLO is ready to (raw) load uboot binary from the eMMC boot partition (i.e. /dev/mmcblk1boot0). Unfortunately, at this point I don't know how to make the platform recognize the eMMC boot partitions. I think they are not modelled yet in uboot. Only the User-Data-Area (UDA) is recognized in uboot (called mmc 1)
Not quite true, no. You'll need code similar to what we have in common/env_mmc.c to switch the partition to the boot partition.