[Automated-testing] minnowboard boot & control

[Nicolas Dechesne]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:45 PM, William Mills <wmills at ti.com> wrote:
> On BeagleBone Black:
> The Si Boot ROM can boot from TFTP.
> The Si Boot ROM can boot from eMMC or SD.
> With relay controlled pull-ups/downs I can control the boot device.
>
> With this control I can recover a device regardless of what a previous test
> has done to eMMC or SD Card.
> (My work is documented at:
> http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/BeagleBone_in_a_Board_Farm
> )

i don't believe Si Boot ROM can boot from TFTP, sounds like a u-boot
thingy. you probably can boot from USB, though (e.g. fastboot style,
not HDD style).

when you say that you can recover, you assume that you have a good
bootloader on either SD or eMMC that can be used as recovery?

nico