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Boot source selection
---------------------
The board provides DIP switches to select the device for loading the boot
firmware.
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Boot source SW1 SW2
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UART OFF OFF
SD-card ON OFF
eMMC OFF ON
SPI flash ON ON
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Flashing a new U-Boot version
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U-Boot SPL is provided as file spl/u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out. Main U-Boot is
in file u-boot.itb.
Assuming your new U-Boot version is on partition 1 of an SD-card you could
install it to the SPI flash with:
.. code-block:: console
sf probe
load mmc 1:1 $kernel_addr_r u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out
sf update $kernel_addr_r 0 $filesize
load mmc 1:1 $kernel_addr_r u-boot.itb
sf update $kernel_addr_r 0x100000 $filesize
For loading the files from a TFTP server refer to the dhcp and tftpboot
commands.
After updating U-Boot you may want to erase a saved environment and reboot.
.. code-block:: console
env erase
reset
Booting from SD-Card
--------------------
The device boot ROM loads U-Boot SPL (u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out) from the
partition with type GUID 2E54B353-1271-4842-806F-E436D6AF6985. You are free
to choose any partition number.
With the default configuration U-Boot SPL loads the U-Boot FIT image
(u-boot.itb) from partition 2 (CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION=0x2).
When formatting it is recommended to use GUID
BC13C2FF-59E6-4262-A352-B275FD6F7172 for this partition.
Booting from eMMC
-----------------
The device boot ROM tries to load U-Boot SPL (u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out) from
sector 0 of the eMMC's main hardware partition. But this conflicts with GPT
partitioning. Fortunately eMMC can alternatively load U-Boot SPL from a backup
position.
For U-Boot SPL (u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out) starting at sector 2048 (position
0x100000) write the following bytes to the eMMC device after GPT partitioning:
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Address Bytes
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0x0000 40 02 00 00 00 00 10 00
0x0290 40 02 00 00 00 00 10 00
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With the default configuration U-Boot SPL loads the U-Boot FIT image
(u-boot.itb) from partition 2 (CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION=0x2).
When formatting it is recommended to use GUID
BC13C2FF-59E6-4262-A352-B275FD6F7172 for this partition.
Booting from UART
-----------------
The boot ROM supports the X-modem protocol to upload
spl/u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out. U-Boot SPL support loading the FIT image
u-boot.itb via the Y-modem protocol.
Due to restrictions of the boot ROM not all X-modem implementations are
compatible. The package tio (https://github.com/tio/tio) has been found to be
usable.
Debug UART
----------
By default the SBI interface is used for the debug UART. But this only works
in main U-Boot. To enable the debug UART in SPL, too, use the following
settings::
CONFIG_DEBUG_UART=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_NS16550=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_BASE=0x10000000
CONFIG_SPL_DEBUG_UART_BASE=0x10000000
CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_CLOCK=24000000
CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_SHIFT=2