Fwd: [gta02] u-boot boot menu regression ?

Wolfgang Spraul wolfgang at openmoko.com
Wed Apr 16 16:54:15 CEST 2008


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> From: Werner Almesberger <werner at openmoko.org>
> Date: April 16, 2008 7:47:51 PM GMT+08:00
> To: gta02 <gta02 at lists.internal.openmoko.org>
> Subject: Re: [gta02] u-boot boot menu regression ?
>
> Ah, just got an update. Miles, I hope it's okay if I post this on
> the list:
>
>> hello, can you help me change to the behavior of starting boot menu  
>> like
>> before. We must stop automatically in boot menu. Now behavior of the
>> newest u-boot is not suitable for factory.
>
> u-boot only stops automatically in the boot menu if booting from NOR.
> Is this what you're looking for ? For NOR, the sequence is as follows:
>
> - Hold and press AUX
>
> - Hold and press POWER
>
> - Continue holding AUX and POWER until the boot menu comes up
>
> - Release AUX and POWER in any order
>
> There was never a mode in which it always stopped in the boot menu
> when booting from NAND (or JTAG, etc.), so I'm a bit confused what
> you refer to with "before" ;-)
>
>> I need to change to stop automatically in boot menu.
>
> If you really want to enter the boot menu unconditionally, even if
> booting from NAND or JTAG, you can change board/neo1973/gta02/gta02.c,
> around line 434, where it says
>
> 	enter_bootmenu = menu_vote > 0 || booted_from_nor;
>
> to
>
> 	enter_bootmenu = 1;
>
> However, if you do this, you have to replace u-boot with a version
> that doesn't have this change before the device leaves the factory.
>
> Does this help ?
>
> Cheers, Werner
>
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