Preliminary wiki starting page for i.MX53 QuickStart board

[Zygmunt Krynicki]

W dniu 03.09.2011 09:57:36, nadawca Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>,Christian Robottom Reis <kiko at linaro.org>, Linaro Dev <linaro-dev at lists.linaro.org>,  Eric Miao napisał:
>    On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Zygmunt Krynicki 
>    <zygmunt.krynicki at linaro.org> wrote: 
>    ... 
>    > I read all about how to boot that board. I'm working on booting 
> via USB. I 
>    Can you explain what you mean by "booting via USB"? 

iMX53 can use the micro USB port to boot. You have to make the CPU enter serial download mode which polls 5 UARTs and the micro USB port. This is described in IMX53RM.pdf,

>    You can use USB to enter in bootstrap mode, so that you can 
> program a 
>    binary into some media, like SD card for example.
Is that what I refer to as serial downloader?
 
>    You can´t boot via a USB pen drive for example. MX53 allows you 
> to 
>    boot from: NOR, NAND, MMC, PATA, SATA, EEPROM.
You are correct, my description was vague.

Thanks
Zygmunt Krynicki