[fedora-arm] F21 VFAT boot partition?

[Robert Nelson]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Robert Nelson <robertcnelson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Oh interesting, so that means we can put the u-boot/MLO on a ext4
> /boot partition (partition 1) and have it work? If not how does this
> work?

Build u-boot with "CONFIG_SPL_EXT_SUPPORT" enabled:

http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=592f922261993bad8cfb96395342e25eda6776e3

Here's the notes:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/196158

Regards,

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Robert Nelson
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