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authorUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>2017-06-02 20:22:04 +0200
committerSascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>2017-06-06 09:17:00 +0200
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docs: move kwboot description to generic mvebu section
Expand the generic part about kwboot to the mvebu page and advertise the parameter -n to make it simpler to boot some machines. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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@@ -36,7 +36,10 @@ Booting from UART
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The mvebu SoCs support booting from UART. For this there is a tool available in
-barebox called kwboot.
+barebox called ``kwboot``. Quite some mvebu boards are reset once more when
+they already started to read the first block of the image to boot. If you want
+to boot such a board, use the parameter ``-n 15`` for ``kwboot``. (The number
+might have to be adapted per board.)
mvebu boards
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