On 24 October 2012 21:00, Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre@linaro.org wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Viresh Kumar wrote:
You can also connect vexpress board with your PC with a USB cable, and the uSD card will be shown on your PC as data storage, as soon as bootloader or bootmonitor is on. You can simply copy files from your linux pc to this storage and reboot :)
I know. But that implies mounting and unmounting the device (unless you have an auto-mounter set up which I haven't). Also, this makes the boot very long when large files have to be reflashed, especially ramdisk images. And this is not very flexible when requiring runtime changes to the DTB.
And for me, the deal breaker is the fact that all the other boards on my desk don't have such fancy USB storage connection and they are set up for booting over the network already.
Got it. Rest of the part of this mail is to make my life simple :)
@Pawell and others: Is there a way in vexpress bootmon to load images directly from uSD card instead of flash? I know we can stop flashing stuff to flash from uSD card by changing config.txt, but with that i need commands to load stuff from uSD card directly.
This will save a lot of time during development.
-- viresh