[Arm-netbook] EOMA68-A20: successful direct boot off of SD/MMC

[Philip Hands]

"luke.leighton" <luke.leighton at gmail.com> writes:

> updated instructions here:
> http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner/a20/boot/
>
> basically i managed to compile u-boot (thanks henrik!) and then drop
> it onto the NAND flash in place of the allwinner / wits-tech compiled
> one.  by default that's compiled to look on SD/MMC 3, so ta-daaa,
> instant boot from SD/MMC.

Cool :-)

BTW Is there a reason to copy rather than move the old u-boot?  I'd
normally do:

  mv u-boot.bin u-boot.bin.orig

but perhaps you wanted a new file to be created, or for it to fail due
to too little space at this stage, rather than later.

Cheers, Phil.
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