Freescale boot kernel

[Hector Oron]

Hello,

2011/10/2  <webwillow at thewebwillow.com>:
> does $device = the boot device such as /dev/mmcblk0 or the partition
> /dev/mmcblkp1? I would think that might destroy infromation on the partion
> by writing directly to the partion and not from mounting the partition and
> writing the information...

I use umounted /dev/sdd, with seek (or skip) you avoid to overwrite
the partition table information on the MMC card which it is found in
the first 512 bytes. OTOH, I have, as the default MMC card shipped
with QSB, 8MB of raw data at the beginning of the card, then I have
/dev/sdd1 starting with an 8MB offset from the beginning.

> I also noticed that between sheeva plugs and the freescale devices, uboot
> will only allow you to load from ext2 where the freescale device partitions
> are ext3....

IIRC, u-boot is able to read from ext2/3/4, so you can instruct your
loader to read kernel image from that device.

Regards,
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