[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 0/7] Support building a second Barebox config (incl. BBB)

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

Hi,

>> If I copy your images (MLO, barebox.bin) directly to the FAT
 >> partition, everything starts as expected. But I dd boot.vfat, the
 >> system doesn't boot and shows only CCCCC, though I have no problems
 >> mounting the first partition in Linux.
 >> 
 >> sudo dd if=/tmp/boot.vfat of=/dev/sdd1 bs=1M

 > So this means that the Barebox build is OK, and only the genimage part
 > is causing problems. But this doesn't prevent from merging the barebox
 > aspects of the series (patches 1 to 6), which are really the important
 > part. The last patch is really more a defconfig proving that it works,
 > I am not even sure that in practice we want to merge a defconfig for
 > BeagleBone that is just different from beaglebone_defconfig in the fact
 > that it uses Barebox instead of U-Boot. Peter?

 > Peter, I think you looked at using genimage on AM335x, what were your
 > conclusion? On OMAP3, there were some very strict geometry restrictions
 > in the romcode, but I don't remember if your conclusion is that they
 > also apply to AM335x or not.

The rom code afaik checks that the partition size matches exactly with
the size of the fat file system, so just dd'ing a fat fs image to an
existing partition is unlikely to work:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/beagleboard/ro5k5r4Cuq4

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard