Standalone boot (SDVX)

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Applies to SDVX

HistoryEdit

Version	Date	SDVX version	Hardware Part Nr	Notes
1.0.0	September 2018	SDVX 1.0.0	SDV040000C0R

IntroductionEdit

This document was written and tested with the software/hardware combination described in the history table above. However, it contains general concepts that can be adapted on any DAVE Embedded Systems' Linux platform.

The following programming examples are intended for laboratory usage or for preliminary deployment strategy.

A complete deployment strategy has to be carefully identifiyed taking into account the overall arguments like: boot speed, safe boot, recovery mechanisms, watchdog supervisor, etc.

We'll explain how to program and configure an SDVX to boot in standalone mode, without the need of a system microSD card or an NFS server, with threee options:

booting with NOR and NAND internal storage
- in this configuration the primary boot images will be fetched fomr NOR flash storage, while the root file system will be fetched from NAND flash
booting with NAND only
- in this configuration the whole system will boot without the need of a NOR flash storage, all images and the root file system will be fetched from NAND flash
booting with eMMC only
- in this configuration the whole system will boot without the need of a NOR/NAND flashes storage, all images and the root file system will be fetched from eMMC flash

Program boot images ...Edit

Select the proper u-boot, kernel and device tree binary images according to the Axel Lite or Axel ULite SOM used

... into NOR flashEdit

u-BootEdit

Update to the latest u-boot version allows usage of u-boot environment variables available.

=> run load
Using FEC device
TFTP from server 192.168.0.13; our IP address is 192.168.0.89
Filename 'sdvx/u-boot/sdvx-1.0.0_mx6dl_sfczg_spi_u-boot.imx'.
Load address: 0x12000000
Loading: #################################################################
         #################################################################
         ##
         1.4 MiB/s
done
Bytes transferred = 671788 (a402c hex)
=> run spi_update
SF: Detected S25FL256S with page size 64 KiB, total 32 MiB
=>

kernel image and device treeEdit

We assume that the following environment variables are present in u-boot:

loadk=tftpboot ${loadaddr} ${serverip}:${bootfile}
loadfdt=tftpboot ${fdtaddr} ${serverip}:${fdtfile}
spi_updatek=sf erase 200000 800000; sf write ${loadaddr} 200000 ${filesize}
spi_updatefdt=sf erase 180000 80000; sf write ${fdtaddr} 180000 ${filesize}
spi_loadk=sf read ${loadaddr} 200000 800000
spi_loadfdt=sf read ${fdtaddr} 180000 80000
spi_nand=sf probe; run spi_loadk spi_loadfdt nandargs addcons addmisc; if run configid_fixupfdt; then bootm ${loadaddr} - ${fdtaddr}; fi

Update the bootfile and fdtfile environment variables to fit the filename as found inside the TFTP server.
Program kernel and device tree on NOR flash with the following U-Boot command

sf probe; run loadk spi_updatek loadfdt spi_updatefdt

E.g.:

=> sf probe; run loadk spi_updatek loadfdt spi_updatefdt
SF: Detected S25FL256S with page size 64 KiB, total 32 MiB
Using FEC device
TFTP from server 192.168.0.13; our IP address is 192.168.0.98
Filename 'sdvx/linux/sdvx-1.0.0_lite_uImage'.
Load address: 0x12000000
Loading: #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #############################################
         1.6 MiB/s
done
Bytes transferred = 6437016 (623898 hex)
Using FEC device
TFTP from server 192.168.0.13; our IP address is 192.168.0.89
Filename 'sdvx/linux/sdvx-1.0.0_lite_imx6dl-sfczg-cb0043.dtb'.
Load address: 0x18000000
Loading: #########
         1.2 MiB/s
done
Bytes transferred = 42547 (a633 hex)
=>

Reboot the system and configure U-Boot to apply the new configuration

=> setenv bootcmd run spi_nand
=> saveenv

... into NAND flashEdit

u-BootEdit

u-boot on NAND flash must be programmed using NXP kobs-ng utility: this tool is required for writing the correct u-boot image on NAND storing all information needed by bootrom to identify the NAND as a boot device.

Here below an example:

boot the system via SD on NFS
uses a rfs with kobs-ng utility available on it (e.g. DAVE's rfs provided with XELK)
copy the related u-boot imx image file on nfs /home/root (for example)
execute kobs-ng passing the parameters for flashing u-boot on NAND

root@imx6qxelk:~# kobs-ng -x -v -w sdvx-1.0.0_mx6dl_sfczg_nand_u-boot.imx
MTD CONFIG:
  chip_0_device_path = "/dev/mtd0"
  chip_1_device_path = "(null)"
  search_exponent = 2
  data_setup_time = 80
  data_hold_time = 60
  address_setup_time = 25
  data_sample_time = 6
  row_address_size = 3
  column_address_size = 2
  read_command_code1 = 0
  read_command_code2 = 48
  boot_stream_major_version = 1
  boot_stream_minor_version = 0
  boot_stream_sub_version = 0
  ncb_version = 3
  boot_stream_1_address = 0
  boot_stream_2_address = 0
         -- We add the 1k-padding to the uboot.
.tmp_kobs_ng: verifying using key '00000000000000000000000000000000'
.tmp_kobs_ng: is a valid bootstream for key '00000000000000000000000000000000'
mtd: use new bch layout raw access mode
mtd: opening: "/dev/mtd0"
NFC geometry :
        ECC Strength       : 2
        Page Size in Bytes : 2071
        Metadata size      : 10
        ECC Chunk Size in byte : 512
        ECC Chunk count        : 4
        Block Mark Byte Offset : 2028
        Block Mark Bit Offset  : 2
====================================================
mtd: opened '/dev/mtd0' - '(null)'
mtd: max_boot_stream_size_in_bytes = 3670016
mtd: boot_stream_size_in_bytes = 672812
mtd: boot_stream_size_in_pages = 329
mtd: #1 0x00100000 - 0x00480000 (0x001a442c)
mtd: #2 0x00480000 - 0x00800000 (0x0052442c)
FCB
  m_u32Checksum = 0x00000000
  m_u32FingerPrint = 0x20424346
  m_u32Version = 0x01000000
  m_NANDTiming.m_u8DataSetup = 80
  m_NANDTiming.m_u8DataHold = 60
  m_NANDTiming.m_u8AddressSetup = 25
  m_NANDTiming.m_u8DSAMPLE_TIME = 6
  m_u32PageDataSize = 2048
  m_u32TotalPageSize = 2112
  m_u32SectorsPerBlock = 64
  m_u32NumberOfNANDs = 0
  m_u32TotalInternalDie = 0
  m_u32CellType = 0
  m_u32EccBlockNEccType = 1
  m_u32EccBlock0Size = 512
  m_u32EccBlockNSize = 512
  m_u32EccBlock0EccType = 1
  m_u32MetadataBytes = 10
  m_u32NumEccBlocksPerPage = 3
  m_u32EccBlockNEccLevelSDK = 0
  m_u32EccBlock0SizeSDK = 0
  m_u32EccBlockNSizeSDK = 0
  m_u32EccBlock0EccLevelSDK = 0
  m_u32NumEccBlocksPerPageSDK = 0
  m_u32MetadataBytesSDK = 0
  m_u32EraseThreshold = 0
  m_u32Firmware1_startingPage = 512
  m_u32Firmware2_startingPage = 2304
  m_u32PagesInFirmware1 = 329
  m_u32PagesInFirmware2 = 329
  m_u32DBBTSearchAreaStartAddress = 256
  m_u32BadBlockMarkerByte = 2028
  m_u32BadBlockMarkerStartBit = 2
  m_u32BBMarkerPhysicalOffset = 2048
  m_u32BCHType = 0
  m_NANDTMTiming.m_u32TMTiming2_ReadLatency = 0
  m_NANDTMTiming.m_u32TMTiming2_PreambleDelay = 0
  m_NANDTMTiming.m_u32TMTiming2_CEDelay = 0
  m_NANDTMTiming.m_u32TMTiming2_PostambleDelay = 0
  m_NANDTMTiming.m_u32TMTiming2_CmdAddPause = 0
  m_NANDTMTiming.m_u32TMTiming2_DataPause = 0
  m_NANDTMTiming.m_u32TMSpeed = 0
  m_NANDTMTiming.m_u32TMTiming1_BusyTimeout = 0
  m_u32DISBBM = 0
  m_u32BBMarkerPhysicalOffsetInSpareData = 0
DBBT
  m_u32Checksum = 0x00000000
  m_u32FingerPrint = 0x54424244
  m_u32Version = 0x01000000
  m_u32DBBTNumOfPages = 0
Firmware: image #0 @ 0x100000 size 0xa4800 - available 0x380000
Firmware: image #1 @ 0x480000 size 0xa4800 - available 0x380000
-------------- Start to write the [ FCB ] -----
mtd: erasing @0:0x0-0x20000
mtd: Writing FCB0 [ @0:0x0 ] (840) *
mtd: erasing @0:0x20000-0x40000
mtd: Writing FCB1 [ @0:0x20000 ] (840) *
mtd: erasing @0:0x40000-0x60000
mtd: Writing FCB2 [ @0:0x40000 ] (840) *
mtd: erasing @0:0x60000-0x80000
mtd: Writing FCB3 [ @0:0x60000 ] (840) *
mtd_commit_bcb(FCB): status 0

-------------- Start to write the [ DBBT ] -----
mtd: erasing @0:0x80000-0xa0000
mtd: Writing DBBT0 [ @0:0x80000 ] (800) *
mtd: erasing @0:0xa0000-0xc0000
mtd: Writing DBBT1 [ @0:0xa0000 ] (800) *
mtd: erasing @0:0xc0000-0xe0000
mtd: Writing DBBT2 [ @0:0xc0000 ] (800) *
mtd: erasing @0:0xe0000-0x100000
mtd: Writing DBBT3 [ @0:0xe0000 ] (800) *
mtd_commit_bcb(DBBT): status 0

---------- Start to write the [ .tmp_kobs_ng ]----
mtd: Writting .tmp_kobs_ng: #0 @0: 0x00100000 - 0x001a4800
mtd: erasing @0:0x100000-0x120000
mtd: erasing @0:0x120000-0x140000
mtd: erasing @0:0x140000-0x160000
mtd: erasing @0:0x160000-0x180000
mtd: erasing @0:0x180000-0x1a0000
mtd: erasing @0:0x1a0000-0x1c0000
mtd: The last page is not full : 1068
mtd: We write one page for save guard. *
mtd: Writting .tmp_kobs_ng: #1 @0: 0x00480000 - 0x00524800
mtd: erasing @0:0x480000-0x4a0000
mtd: erasing @0:0x4a0000-0x4c0000
mtd: erasing @0:0x4c0000-0x4e0000
mtd: erasing @0:0x4e0000-0x500000
mtd: erasing @0:0x500000-0x520000
mtd: erasing @0:0x520000-0x540000
mtd: The last page is not full : 1068
mtd: We write one page for save guard. *
root@imx6qxelk:~#

kernel image and device treeEdit

We assume that the following environment variables are present in u-boot:

nand_updatek=nand erase.part nand-kernel; nand write ${loadaddr} nand-kernel ${filesize}
nand_updatefdt=nand erase.part nand-fdt; nand write ${fdtaddr} nand-fdt ${filesize}
nand_loadk=nand read ${loadaddr} nand-kernel
nand_loadfdt=nand read ${fdtaddr} nand-fdt
nand_nand=run nand_loadk nand_loadfdt nandargs addcons addmisc; if run configid_fixupfdt; then bootm ${loadaddr} - ${fdtaddr}; fi

Update the bootfile and fdtfile environment variables to fit the filename as found inside the TFTP server.
Program kernel and device tree on NAND flash with the following U-Boot command

run loadk nand_updatek loadfdt nand_updatefdt

E.g.:

U-Boot > run loadk nand_updatek loadfdt nand_updatefdt
Using FEC device
TFTP from server 192.168.0.13; our IP address is 192.168.0.98
Filename 'sdvx/linux/sdvx-1.0.0_lite_uImage'.
Load address: 0x12000000
Loading: #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #######################
         1.4 MiB/s
done
Bytes transferred = 6437016 (623898 hex)

NAND erase.part: device 0 offset 0xc00000, size 0x800000
Erasing at 0x13e0000 -- 100% complete.
OK

NAND write: device 0 offset 0xc00000, size 0x623898
 6437016 bytes written: OK
Using FEC device
TFTP from server 192.168.0.13; our IP address is 192.168.0.89
Filename 'sdvx/linux/sdvx-1.0.0_lite_imx6dl-sfczg-cb0043.dtb'.
Load address: 0x18000000
Loading: #########
         525.4 KiB/s
done
Bytes transferred = 42547 (a633 hex)

NAND erase.part: device 0 offset 0xa00000, size 0x100000
Erasing at 0xae0000 -- 100% complete.
OK

NAND write: device 0 offset 0xa00000, size 0xa633
 42547 bytes written: OK
=>

Reboot the system and configure U-Boot to apply the new configuration

=> setenv bootcmd run nand_nand
=> saveenv

... into eMMCEdit

u-BootEdit

Update to the latest u-boot version allows usage of u-boot environment variables available.

mmc_update=mmc dev; setexpr blocks ${filesize} / 0x200; setexpr blocks ${blocks} + 1; mmc write ${loadaddr} 2 ${blocks}

Load u-boot binary form a tftp server:

=> run load
Using FEC device
TFTP from server 192.168.0.13; our IP address is 192.168.0.89
Filename 'sdvx/u-boot/sdvx-1.0.0_mx6dl_sfczg_u-boot.imx'.
Load address: 0x12000000
Loading: #################################################################
         #################################################################
         ##
         1.5 MiB/s
done
Bytes transferred = 671788 (a402c hex)
=> run mmc_update
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc2(part 0) is current device (eMMC)

MMC write: dev # 2, block # 2, count 1313 ... 1313 blocks written: OK
=>

Load u-boot binary form an SD card:

Hit ENTER within 1 seconds to stop autoboot
=> fatload mmc 0:1 ${loadaddr} sdvx-1.0.1_mx6dlaxel_u-boot.imx
reading sdvx-1.0.1_mx6dlaxel_u-boot.imx
671788 bytes read in 50 ms (12.8 MiB/s)
=> mmc dev 2
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc2(part 0) is current device (eMMC)
=> run mmc_update
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc2(part 0) is current device (eMMC)

MMC write: dev # 2, block # 2, count 1313 ... 1313 blocks written: OK
=>

kernel image and device treeEdit

We assume that the following environment variables are present in u-boot:

mmc_loadk=fatload mmc ${mmcdev}:1 ${loadaddr} ${bootfile}
mmc_loadfdt=fatload mmc ${mmcdev}:1 ${fdtaddr} ${fdtfile}
mmc_loadsplash=fatload mmc ${mmcdev}:1 ${loadaddr} ${splashfile}; cp.b ${loadaddr} ${splashimage} ${filesize}
mmcboot=run mmcargs addcons addmisc; if run mmc_loadk; then if run mmc_loadfdt; then if run configid_fixupfdt; then bootm ${loadaddr} - ${fdtaddr}; fi; fi; fi

Using an SD card or an eMMC device assumes that bootfile, fdtfile and splashfile are stored into fist MMC device partition.

Then, u-boot uses the previous listed commands for reading the binary images and starting the linux bootstrap from the MMC part 2 (which is reserved for the root-file system storage).

The following u-boot environment variables are present for this purposes:

mmcargs=setenv bootargs root=${mmcroot}
mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk2p2 rootwait rw

boot varsEdit

The following environment variables should be configured for u-boot properly reading the boot files from the first SD card partition, e.g.

=> setenv normalboot mmcboot
=> setenv bootfile sdvx-1.0.1_lite_uImage
=> setenv fdtfile sdvx-1.0.1_lite_imx6dl-sdv03-cb002a.dtb
=> setenv splashfile splash_image.bmp

then save the environment and reboot the system to apply the new configuration:

=> saveenv
Saving Environment to MMC...
Writing to MMC(2)... done
=> reset

Program root file system into NAND flashEdit

Boot the system via SD or NFS as described in the e Quick start guide
By default, the NAND is already partitioned to allow booting from NAND-only (see next section) and, thus, some partitions are reserved for u-boot and kernel images. Here we won't modify this default configuration. The MTD partitions can be dumped with /proc/mtd (the partition's name should be self-explanatory)

root@sdvx-lite:~# cat /proc/mtd
dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00800000 00020000 "nand-uboot"
mtd1: 00100000 00020000 "nand-env1"
mtd2: 00100000 00020000 "nand-env2"
mtd3: 00100000 00020000 "nand-fdt"
mtd4: 00100000 00020000 "nand-spare"
mtd5: 00800000 00020000 "nand-kernel"
mtd6: 00600000 00020000 "nand-splash"
mtd7: 3e600000 00020000 "nand-ubi"
root@sdvx-lite:~#

Please note that MTD partition index may change depending of flash device availability, flash device size, u-boot environment variables or kernel device driver load order. Always take care of looking inside /proc/mtd to match your specific layout

Format and initialize nand-ubi partition, which in our case is mtd7, using UBI with:

ubiformat /dev/mtd7
ubiattach -m 7
ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -N rootfs -m

E.g.

root@sdvx-lite:~# ubiformat /dev/mtd7
ubiformat: mtd7 (nand), size 1048576000 bytes (1000.0 MiB), 8000 eraseblocks of 131072 bytes (128.0 KiB), min. I/O size 2048 bytes
libscan: scanning eraseblock 7999 -- 100 % complete
ubiformat: 8000 eraseblocks have valid erase counter, mean value is 1
ubiformat: formatting eraseblock 7999 -- 100 % complete
root@sdvx-lite:~# ubiattach -m 7
[ 1714.823600] UBI: attaching mtd7 to ubi0
[ 1726.415587] UBI: scanning is finished
[ 1726.483765] UBI: attached mtd7 (name "nand-ubi", size 1000 MiB) to ubi0
[ 1726.491062] UBI: PEB size: 131072 bytes (128 KiB), LEB size: 126976 bytes
[ 1726.498301] UBI: min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048/2048, sub-page size 2048
[ 1726.505030] UBI: VID header offset: 2048 (aligned 2048), data offset: 4096
[ 1726.512430] UBI: good PEBs: 8000, bad PEBs: 0, corrupted PEBs: 0
[ 1726.518861] UBI: user volume: 0, internal volumes: 1, max. volumes count: 128
[ 1726.526025] UBI: max/mean erase counter: 3/2, WL threshold: 4096, image sequence number: 623070258
[ 1726.535433] UBI: available PEBs: 7836, total reserved PEBs: 164, PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 160
[ 1726.545260] UBI: background thread "ubi_bgt0d" started, PID 714
UBI device number 0, total 8000 LEBs (1015808000 bytes, 968.8 MiB), available 7836 LEBs (994983936 bytes, 948.9 MiB), LEB size 126976 bytes (124.0 KiB)
root@sdvx-lite:~# ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -N rootfs -m
Set volume size to 994983936
Volume ID 0, size 7836 LEBs (994983936 bytes, 948.9 MiB), LEB size 126976 bytes (124.0 KiB), dynamic, name "rootfs", alignment 1

Now mount the UBI volume using UBIFS in a temporary directory

mkdir -p /mnt/nand
mount -t ubifs ubi0_0 /mnt/nand

E.g.:

root@sdvx-lite:~# mkdir -p /mnt/nand
root@sdvx-lite:~# mount -t ubifs ubi0_0 /mnt/nand
[ 1810.301461] UBIFS: default file-system created
[ 1810.308952] UBIFS: background thread "ubifs_bgt0_0" started, PID 717
[ 1810.452274] UBIFS: mounted UBI device 0, volume 0, name "rootfs"
[ 1810.459421] UBIFS: LEB size: 126976 bytes (124 KiB), min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048 bytes/2048 bytes
[ 1810.469398] UBIFS: FS size: 992698368 bytes (946 MiB, 7818 LEBs), journal size 33521664 bytes (31 MiB, 264 LEBs)
[ 1810.480976] UBIFS: reserved for root: 4952683 bytes (4836 KiB)
[ 1810.487210] UBIFS: media format: w4/r0 (latest is w4/r0), UUID 99D0F3C6-5955-4B30-9E2D-72202281BD30, small LPT model

you can now extract the root file system into that directory

tar xvjf sdvx-1.0.1_image-devel-sdvx-lite.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/nand

finally, you need to cleanly umount and detach the MTD partition

umount /mnt/nand/
ubidetach -m 7

E.g.

root@sdvx-lite:~# umount /mnt/nand/
[ 2446.743091] UBIFS: un-mount UBI device 0, volume 0
[ 2446.749670] UBIFS: background thread "ubifs_bgt0_0" stops
root@sdvx-lite:~# ubidetach -m 7
[ 2450.738153] UBI: detaching mtd7 from ubi0
[ 2450.759527] UBI: mtd7 is detached from ubi0

You can now safely reboot or turn off the system.

In U-Boot environment check the following variable, which must contain the same MTD partition number used above

nand_args=setenv bootargs root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs rw ubi.mtd=7

Program root file system into eMMC flashEdit

Boot the system via SD or NFS as described in the e Quick start guide
eMMC device has to be partitioned and properly formatted choosing the file system for each partition
an example of SD partitioning script is the following one:

FAT32 partitionEdit

#!/bin/sh

node=$1

# partition size in MB
BOOTLOAD_RESERVE=8
BOOT_ROM_SIZE=128
RFS_SIZE=2048

# create the SDCARD partition
part=""
echo ${node} | grep mmcblk > /dev/null
if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then
        part="p"
fi

# print the SD total capacity
total_size=`sfdisk -s ${node}`
total_size=`expr ${total_size} / 1024`
echo SD total size: ${total_size}KB

# calculate partition sizes
boot_start=`expr ${BOOTLOAD_RESERVE} \\* 1024 \\* 1024 / 512`
boot_size=`expr ${BOOT_ROM_SIZE} \\* 1024 \\* 1024 / 512`
rfs_start=`expr ${boot_size} + ${boot_start}`
rfs_size=`expr ${RFS_SIZE} \\* 1024 \\* 1024 / 512`

umount ${node}${part}1 > /dev/null 2>&1
umount ${node}${part}2 > /dev/null 2>&1

# call sfdisk to create partition table
{ echo ${boot_start},${boot_size},0c,-; echo ${rfs_start},${rfs_size},83,-; } | sfdisk --force ${node}

# format the SDCARD partition
echo "formatting boot"
mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n boot ${node}${part}1
echo "formatting rfs"
mkfs.ext4 -F ${node}${part}2 -Lrfs

E.g.

root@sdvx-lite:~# ./sdcard-partition.sh /dev/mmcblk2
SD total size: 3776KB
[ 1341.905014]  mmcblk2: p1 p2
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ... OK

Disk /dev/mmcblk2: 3.7 GiB, 3959422976 bytes, 7733248 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical):[ 1341.922729]  mmcblk2: p1 p2
 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xa77eb3f0

Old situation:

Device         Boot  Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk2p1        2048  264191  262144  128M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk2p2      264192 4458495 4194304    2G 83 Linux

>>> Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xcce0c36f.
Created a new partition 1 of type 'W95 FAT32 (LBA)' and of size 128 MiB.
/dev/mmcblk2p2: Created a new partition 2 of type 'Linux' and of size 2 GiB.
/dev/mmcblk2p3:
New situation:

Device         Boot  Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk2p1       16384  278527  262144  128M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk2p2      278528 4472831 4194304    2G 83 Linux

The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
formatting boot
mkfs.fat 3.0.28 (2015-05-16)
mkfs.fat: warning - lowercase labels might not work properly with DOS or Windows
formatting rfs
mke2fs 1.43-WIP (18-May-2015)
Discarding device blocks: done
Creating filesystem with 524288 4k blocks and 131072 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 9a685543-1af2-4e39-83f3-b8a32248c021
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (16384 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

root@sdvx-lite:~#

create a mount point and mount the first partition

mkdir -p /mnt/emmc
mount /dev/mmcblk2p1 /mnt/emmc

copy kernel, dtb and splash_image files

root@sdvx-lite:~# mount /dev/mmcblk2p1 /mnt/emmc
[   40.988575] FAT-fs (mmcblk2p1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
root@sdvx-lite:~# cd /mnt/emmc
root@sdvx-lite:/mnt/emmc# cp /tftpboot/sdvx/linux/sdvx-1.0.1*dtb .
root@sdvx-lite:/mnt/emmc# cp /tftpboot/sdvx/linux/sdvx-1.0.1*uImage .
root@sdvx-lite:/mnt/emmc# cp /tftpboot/sdvx/linux/splash_image.bmp .
root@sdvx-lite:/mnt/emmc# cd
root@sdvx-lite:~# umount /mnt/emmc

now mount the EXT4 volume in the temporary directory

E.g.:

root@sdvx-lite:~# mount /dev/mmcblk2p2 /mnt/emmc
[ 1810.899327] EXT4-fs (mmcblk2p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
root@sdvx-lite:~# cd /mnt/emmc
root@sdvx-lite:/mnt/emmc#

you can now extract the root file system into that directory

tar xvjf sdvx-1.0.1_image-devel-sdvx-lite.tar.bz2

finally, you need to cleanly umount and safely reboot or turn off the system.

root@sdvx-lite:/mnt/emmc# cd
root@sdvx-lite:~# umount /mnt/emmc
root@sdvx-lite:~# reboot

Reboot the system and configure U-Boot to apply the new configuration

=> setenv bootcmd run mmcboot
=> saveenv

ext4 partitionEdit

For using an ext4 partition also for boot files, it is possibile to change the formatting script:

{ echo ${boot_start},${boot_size},83,-; echo ${rfs_start},${rfs_size},83,-; } | sfdisk --force ${node}

and formatting the first partition using mkfs.ext4

mkfs.ext4 -F ${node}${part}1 -Lboot

then, the u-boot environment has to be properly configured:

=> setenv mmc_loadk 'ext4load mmc ${mmcdev}:1 ${loadaddr} ${bootfile}'
=> setenv mmc_loadfdt 'ext4load mmc ${mmcdev}:1 ${fdtaddr} ${fdtfile}'
=> setenv mmc_loadsplash 'ext4load mmc ${mmcdev}:1 ${loadaddr} ${splashfile}; cp.b ${loadaddr} ${splashimage} ${filesize}'
=> saveenv

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HistoryEdit

IntroductionEdit

Program boot images ...Edit

... into NOR flashEdit

u-BootEdit

kernel image and device treeEdit

... into NAND flashEdit

u-BootEdit

kernel image and device treeEdit

... into eMMCEdit

u-BootEdit

kernel image and device treeEdit

boot varsEdit

Program root file system into NAND flashEdit

Program root file system into eMMC flashEdit

FAT32 partitionEdit

ext4 partitionEdit

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