[Arm-netbook] Make A10 boot-able image tool

[Henrik Nordström]

ons 2012-02-15 klockan 18:49 +0000 skrev lkcl luke:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 15:09, Tom Cubie <mr.hipboi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>     It's the tool to let the A10 brom to agree to load the code to its
> >> internal sram.
> 
> > amazing! thanks Tom!
> 
>  yeaay, superb.  so this is a non-w32 version of the loader tool, right?

Yes and no. It's the beginning of being able to write an A10 bootable
sdcard with open software.

The ultimate goal of this is to enable the use of U-Boot on A10 using
only free software. This consists of a number of parts

a) Some software that can make take a some initial bootloader code and
add a valid A10 boot signature to it (header + checksum) making it
accepted as bootable by A10. This is the job of the softare Tom just
announced.

b) Initial bootloader (<24KB, i.e. U-Boot SPL) responsible for
configuring DRAM and other critical system parameters, enabling a full
boot loader to be loaded into DRAM. 

c) Full bootloader (i.e. U-Boot), which can load our favorite OS etc.

Regards
Henrik