[meta-freescale] Unable to get u-boot running on i.MX6 SABRE for Smart Devices Eval Board

[Gary Thomas]

On 2014-11-05 09:15, Guillaume Fournier wrote:
>>>>> The ultimate goal is to have a cross-compiler build environment that works for both u-boot and kernel development.  For now, I used Yocto to generate the toolchain (using meta-toolchain as specified in my first post) as described in section 3.4 of the Yocto Project Application Developer's Guide.
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>>>> I am failing to see what is missing? I use the toolchain for kernel and  u-boot development with no issues. What problems you are facing?
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>>>> Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
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>>> I know it is a long post but could you read the first email I sent to the mailing list? I think this will sum it up for you.  Except for the last bit where I used the mfgtools instead of the cfimager (I changed after Daiane suggestion), everything is still relevant.  Thanks for stepping in Otavio.
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>> As I said on the other e-mail you need to use the u-boot.imx file, not the u-boot.bin one. Another change needed for mfgtool xml file is the dd command which needs the removal of 'seek=2' as it has no padding..
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> I'm now using the cfimager instead of the mfgtool as suggested by Daiane.  I am using u-boot.imx as follow:
> cfimager -f u-boot.imx -raw -offset 1024 -skip 1024 -d d
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> If I use an .sdcard file from a Yocto build like this:
> cfimager -f core-image-base-imx6dlsabresd.sdcard -raw -d d
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> That works.  If I'm using, *from the same build*, the u-boot.imx like this:
> cfimager -f u-boot.imx -raw -offset 1024 -skip 1024 -d d
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> It doesn't!  Of course, if I use my custom built u-boot, it doesn't either.  I'm starting to believe that cfimager parameter are the culprit.

I'd be suspicious of '-offset 1024' - I doubt that you need both.
Give it a try - leave out either the 'offset' or 'skip' options

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