[meta-freescale] How you program your sdcard / mmc

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-04-14 09:39, andrea at perpic.it wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 14/04/2015 alle 14.55 +0200, Andrea ha scritto:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I think this is an off topic post but it's a while I'm googling for this
>> subject and I cannot find any useful information.
>>
>> This is my question:
>> I would like to use an eMMC card on the board. So it is soldered on the
>> board and directly connected to the IMX53. I think the same is for flash
>> or other non volatile memories...
>> How do you first program them with u-boot and linux/android for the
>> first boot?
>>
>> Thank you to everyone who want to share the way they operate or some
>> best practice link.
>>
>> Andrea
>
> Thank you Otavio, Gary, Fabio for your replies,
> I'm a bit confused about the mfgtools, I'm trying to find a windows
> computer to test. My laptop comes with windows 8 preinstalled and the
> program crash when I try to select the USB port. On all the other
> computers I have linux installed.
>
> Regarding the various solution with u-boot. The part that is not clear
> to me is: I need to have u-boot on sdcard otherwise the imx53qsb doesn't
> boot. Where do you place u-boot? On a USB drive? I saw on the datasheet
> that I can use eMMC, SD and NAND or Hard Disks via PATA/SATA. USB is not
> in there.

In this case, I'd elect to build a bootable SD card (you can do
this directly in your Yocto build) which can then be used to
format the eMMC, install the file system and U-Boot.  It will
be a two stage process but it will work on a raw board.  Once
you get the eMMC formatted and filled, it should just be some
jumper/switch settings to boot from eMMC instead of SD.

Note: most of the other replies have been with i.MX6 in mind.

> My question is: When I have a brand new board with the eMMC memory
> soldered on. How can I install there u-boot and all the rest of the
> system? I can't make u-boot install anything, because it's not there
> yet.
> Can someone explain it better?
>
> Thank you again
> Andrea
>

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