[fedora-arm] F21 VFAT boot partition?

[Robert Nelson]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Scott M. Jones <scott at aprr.org> wrote:
>> I have a Beagleboard XM rev B and needed a VFAT boot partition in order
>> to boot.  Will these be provided for F21 and are they still needed?
>
> The VFAT images are no longer provided. It should be possible, like on
> the OMAP4/am33xx devices, to write the uboot to an offset on the root
> of the drive, there's about 2mb left free at the beginning of the ARM
> images to enable this, and get uboot to work. I've looked very briefly
> at this on my xM and started to read docs to see if there was any
> difference between the SoCs but I've not got very far as I've had
> other more pressing things.

RAW mode wasn't introduced till the omap4's bootrom.  However there
are now patches to boot the beagle/beaglexm (omap34xx/dm3730) from
extX via u-boot. But, there's not enough sram for both vfat & extX so
it's a choice you need to make.

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
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