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authorSascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>2015-01-09 17:38:26 +0100
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+Freescale i.MXs
+===============
+
+Freescale i.MXs or MXS are a SoC family which consists of the i.MX23
+and the i.MX28. These are quite different from the regular i.MX SoCs
+and thus are represented by its own architecture in both the Kernel
+and barebox.
+
+Bootlets
+--------
+
+Traditionally These SoCs need the Freescale bootlets source and the
+elf2sb2 binary to build a bootable image out of the barebox binary.
+Since the bootlets are board specific and the source code is only
+hardly customisable each vendor usually has his own slightly different
+version of the bootlets. Booting with the Freescale bootlets is not
+described here, refer to the bootlet sourcecode or your vendors
+documentation instead.
+
+U-Boot and barebox have a port of the bootlets integrated into their
+source. The barebox bootlet code is derived from the U-Boot bootlet
+code written by Marek Vasut.
+
+Currently only the Karo TX28 is supported by the barebox bootlets,
+but we recommend that this approach should be followed for new boards
+and existing boards should be ported over.
+
+Booting Freescale i.MXs
+-----------------------
+
+The Freescale MXS SoCs have a multi staged boot process which needs
+different images composed out of different binaries. The ROM executes
+a so called bootstream which contains multiple executables. The first
+one is executed in SRAM and the purpose of this binary is to setup
+the internal PMIC and the SDRAM. The second image is usually the
+bootloader itself. In case of barebox the bootstream is composed
+out of the self extracting barebox image (pblx) and the prepare
+stage for setting up the SDRAM.
+
+The bootstream image itself is useful for USB boot, but for booting from
+SD cards or NAND a BCB header has to be prepended to the image. In case
+of SD boot the image has the .mxssd file extension in barebox.
+
+Since the bootstream images are encrypted they are not suitable for
+2nd stage execution. For this purpose the 2nd stage images are generated.
+
+Booting from USB
+----------------
+
+barebox has the mxs-usb-loader tool (derived from the sbloader tool from
+the rockbox project). If the board is connected to the PC and started in
+USB Boot mode it should show up in lsusb::
+
+ Bus 001 Device 098: ID 15a2:004f Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. i.MX28 SystemOnChip in RecoveryMode
+
+The bootstream images can be directly booted with::
+
+ ./scripts/mxs-usb-loader 0 images/barebox-karo-tx28-bootstream.img
+
+You might require appropriate udev rules or sudo to gain the rights to
+access the USB device.
+
+Booting from SD cards
+---------------------
+
+The SD images are suitable for booting from SD cards. SD cards need a special
+partitioning which can be created with the following fdisk sequence (using
+/dev/sdg as example)::
+
+ fdisk /dev/sdg
+
+ Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.25.1).
+ Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
+ Be careful before using the write command.
+
+
+ Command (m for help): o
+ Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xd7e5d328.
+
+ Command (m for help): n
+ Partition type
+ p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
+ e extended (container for logical partitions)
+ Select (default p): p
+ Partition number (1-4, default 1): 1
+ First sector (2048-7829503, default 2048):
+ Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (2048-7829503, default 7829503): +1M
+
+ Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 1 MiB.
+
+ Command (m for help): t
+ Selected partition 1
+ Hex code (type L to list all codes): 53
+ Changed type of partition 'Linux' to 'OnTrack DM6 Aux3'.
+
+ Command (m for help):
+
+ Command (m for help): w
+
+After writing the new partition table the image can be written directly to
+the partition::
+
+ cat images/barebox-karo-tx28-sd.img > /dev/sdg1
+
+** NOTE **
+
+The MXS SoCs require a special partition of type 0x53 (OnTrack DM6 Aux)
+which contains the BCB header. For some unknown reason the BCB header is
+inside a partition, but contains the sector number of the raw device from
+which the rest of the image is read from. With standard settings booting
+from SD card only works if the partition containing the bootloader starts
+at sector 2048 (the standard for fdisk). See the -p parameter to the
+mxsboot tool which changes this sector number in the image.
+
+Booting second stage
+--------------------
+
+The second stage images can be started with the barebox bootm command or
+just jumped into using the 'go' command.
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@@ -34,20 +34,9 @@ Build the binary image::
**NOTE:** replace the armv5compiler with your ARM v5 cross compiler.
-**NOTE:** to use the result, you also need the following resources from Freescale:
+This produces the following images:
- * the 'bootlets' archive
- * the 'elftosb2' encryption tool
- * in the case you want to start barebox from an attached SD card
- the 'sdimage' tool from Freescale's 'uuc' archive.
+ * barebox-karo-tx28-bootstream.img - Use with the bcb command
+ * barebox-karo-tx28-sd.img - Use for SD cards
+ * barebox-karo-tx28-2nd.img - Use for 2nd stage booting (with bootm)
-Memory layout when barebox is running
--------------------------------------
-
- * 0x40000000 start of SDRAM
- * 0x40000100 start of kernel's boot parameters
-
- * below malloc area: stack area
- * below barebox: malloc area
-
- * 0x47000000 start of barebox