u-boot-openmoko 1.3.3 (unofficial package) - testers wanted

[Peter Rasmussen]

Hi  thomasg,

I can see that what I have been able to use is exactly what you intended 
in your wiki description.

So yes, I can boot a system residing on the SDHC card, however the 
kernel is taken from the NAND image, ie. "your" method :-)

And that is why I in a different mail mentioned that I would like to 
have the SDHC-support in u-boot, to boot completely independent systems 
on a flash-card.
With presently the size of max. 8GB for a micro-SDHC, one card is able 
to hold several systems, so I think such an option is a very good idea.

This is what I have in my previous listing as well, but I would like to 
emphasize the following, too:

"And if u-boot had USB support implemented so that I could upload an 
image from my desktop Linux straight to the flash-card without having to 
boot the Neo all the way to a Linux system, that would be really 
helpful, too."

If I could boot up in u-boot and specify what target-partition on the 
flash-card I want to put a kernel and a rootfs, and then subsequently 
boot that image, that would be great!

Peter


thomasg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm the one who started the section "Booting from SDHC" in this wiki 
> entry.
> Actually this title is wrong (what is my "fault", even it was 
> intended) , as the kernel is booted from NAND and loading the rootfs 
> isn't booting because it's done by the kernel.
> As I didn't manage to do a real boot from SDHC I'd be surprised if you 
> managed it - and it even isn't described in the wiki entry - so my 
> guess is that you are referring to "my" method.
> If I'm wrong please tell me and add it to the wiki, if not I just 
> wanted to point out that this problem still exists and there is still 
> no SDHC-support in u-boot.
>
> thomasg
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Peter Rasmussen <plr at udgaard.com 
> <mailto:plr at udgaard.com>> wrote:
>
>     I have a SanDisk 6GB SDHC Class4 that I have been able to boot
>     from for a very long time, at least since some u-boot-1.3.0'ish.
>
>     The info on:
>
>
>     http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Booting_from_SD
>
>     was actually rather helpful.
>
>     What I miss, in this regard, is:
>
>     1.The possibility to fix the kernel that I boot from, to a
>     partition on the flash-card.
>     2.The possibility to not have /etc/fstab overwritten at every
>     reboot, so that I can edit it and have it stay the way I want.
>     3. Points 1. and 2. are in order to be able to have fully
>     independent installations, to be able to boot up like with LILO on
>     a desktop Linux installation.
>
>     And if u-boot had USB support implemented so that I could upload
>     an image from my desktop Linux straight to the flash-card without
>     having to boot the Neo all the way to a Linux system, that would
>     be really helpful, too.
>
>     Peter
>
>
>     Mike Montour wrote:
>
>         Marc Bantle wrote:
>
>             It still doesn't recognize my Kinston 4GB card, which non
>             of the previous versions
>             did either, while the linux kernel does.
>
>
>         According to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Booting_from_SD
>         that seems to be a known issue (4G and up are "SDHC" rather
>         than "SD") but I don't see an entry for it in Bugzilla. It
>         might be worth filing one, including the output of the u-boot
>         "mmcinit" command for your card.
>
>
>