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-How to use and build U-Boot on mx6sabresd:
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-Currently there are four methods for booting mx6sabresd boards:
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+How to use and build U-Boot on mx6sabresd
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-1. Booting from SD card via normal U-Boot (u-boot.imx)
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+The following methods can be used for booting mx6sabresd boards:
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-2. Booting from eMMC via normal U-Boot
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+1. Booting from SD card
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-3. Booting via SPL (SPL and u-boot.img)
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+2. Booting from eMMC
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-4. Booting via Falcon mode (SPL launches the kernel directly)
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+3. Booting via Falcon mode (SPL launches the kernel directly)
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-1. Booting from SD card via normal U-Boot
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+1. Booting from SD card via SPL
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-$ make mx6qsabresd_defconfig (If you want to build for mx6qsabresd)
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+mx6sabresd_defconfig target supports mx6q/mx6dl/mx6qp sabresd variants.
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-or
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+In order to build it:
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-$ make mx6dlsabresd_defconfig (If you want to build for mx6dlsabresd)
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+$ make mx6sabresd_defconfig
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$ make
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-This will generate the image called u-boot.imx.
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+This will generate the SPL and u-boot.img binaries.
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-- Flash the u-boot.imx binary into the SD card:
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+- Flash the SPL binary into the SD card:
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-$ sudo dd if=u-boot.imx of=/dev/sdb bs=1K seek=1 && sync
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+$ sudo dd if=SPL of=/dev/sdX bs=1K seek=1 && sync
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+- Flash the u-boot.img binary into the SD card:
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-2. Booting from eMMC via normal U-Boot
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+$ sudo dd if=u-boot.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1K seek=69 && sync
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-$ make mx6qsabresd_defconfig (If you want to build for mx6qsabresd)
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-or
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+2. Booting from eMMC
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+--------------------
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-$ make mx6dlsabresd_defconfig (If you want to build for mx6dlsabresd)
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+$ make mx6sabresd_defconfig
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$ make
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-This will generate the image called u-boot.imx.
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-- Flash the u-boot.imx binary into the eMMC:
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-Set SW6 to download mode: 00001100
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+This will generate the SPL and u-boot.img binaries.
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-Plug a usb cable to USB-OTG and load the u-boot image using the imx_usb_loader
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-tool (https://github.com/boundarydevices/imx_usb_loader):
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-$ sudo ./imx_usb u-boot.imx
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+- Boot first from SD card as shown in the previous section
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In U-boot change the eMMC partition config:
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@@ -60,48 +51,29 @@ Mount the eMMC in the host PC:
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=> ums 0 mmc 2
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-Flash the u-boot.imx binary
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+- Flash SPL and u-boot.img binaries into the eMMC:
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-$ sudo dd if=u-boot.imx of=/dev/sdX bs=1K seek=1 && sync
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+$ sudo dd if=SPL of=/dev/sdX bs=1K seek=1 && sync
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+$ sudo dd if=u-boot.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1K seek=69 && sync
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Set SW6 to eMMC 8-bit boot: 11010110
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-3. Booting via SPL
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-Other method for building U-Boot on mx6qsabresd and mx6qpsabresd is
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-through SPL. In order to do so:
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-$ make mx6sabresd_spl_defconfig
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-$ make
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-This will generate the SPL image called SPL and the u-boot.img.
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-- Flash the SPL image into the SD card:
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-$ sudo dd if=SPL of=/dev/sdb bs=1K seek=1 && sync
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-- Flash the u-boot.img image into the SD card:
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-$ sudo dd if=u-boot.img of=/dev/sdbbs=1K seek=69 && sync
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-4. Booting via Falcon mode
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+3. Booting via Falcon mode
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-$ make mx6sabresd_spl_defconfig
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+$ make mx6sabresd_defconfig
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$ make
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This will generate the SPL image called SPL and the u-boot.img.
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- Flash the SPL image into the SD card:
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-$ sudo dd if=SPL of=/dev/sdb bs=1K seek=1 oflag=sync status=none && sync
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+$ sudo dd if=SPL of=/dev/sdX bs=1K seek=1 oflag=sync status=none && sync
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- Flash the u-boot.img image into the SD card:
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-$ sudo dd if=u-boot.img of=/dev/sdbbs=1K seek=69 oflag=sync status=none && sync
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+$ sudo dd if=u-boot.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1K seek=69 oflag=sync status=none && sync
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Create a partition for root file system and extract it there:
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