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

[Tom Cubie]

2012/2/16 Henrik Nordström <henrik at henriknordstrom.net>

> 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.
>

Yes, the work is on b) and i am working on it. We already have a) and c).
I have a question, is b) and c) one binary file or two. I mean is u-boo spl
is
part of the u-boot.bin or we then have u-boot.bin and u-boot-spl.bin.


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