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diff --git a/Documentation/boards/am335x.rst b/Documentation/boards/am335x.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7959b84c8d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/boards/am335x.rst @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Texas Instruments AM335x +======================== + +The Texas Instruments AM335x SoCs have a two-stage boot process. The first stage +loader, also known as MLO is loaded by the ROM code. The MLO loads the second stage +loader from the same medium. + +Building barebox +---------------- + +The TI AM335x boards in barebox are covered by the ``am335x_mlo_defconfig`` +for the MLO and ``am335x_defconfig`` for the regular barebox image. The +resulting images will be placed under ``images/``: + +:: + barebox-am33xx-afi-gf.img + barebox-am33xx-afi-gf-mlo.img + barebox-am33xx-beaglebone.img + barebox-am33xx-beaglebone-mlo.img + barebox-am33xx-phytec-phycore.img + barebox-am33xx-phytec-phycore-mlo-1x128m16.img + barebox-am33xx-phytec-phycore-mlo-1x256m16.img + barebox-am33xx-phytec-phycore-mlo-1x512m16.img + +Some boards come in different variants, make sure to pick the correct one. + +Starting and updating barebox +----------------------------- + +SPI NOR and NAND +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +The regular board images can be started from another bootloader, see +:ref:`second_stage`. The board should provide update handlers +to update (or initially install) barebox on SPI NOR or NAND, see :ref:`update`. + +SD/MMC +^^^^^^ + +To start barebox from SD/MMC prepare a card with a FAT filesystem. Copy the MLO +file for your board to the card and name it ``MLO``. Copy the regular image +for your board to the card and name it ``barebox.bin``. diff --git a/Documentation/boards/imx/Karo-TX6 b/Documentation/boards/imx/Karo-TX6 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8dd26b5964 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/boards/imx/Karo-TX6 @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +KaRo TX6x +========= + +This CPU cards are based on a Freescale i.MX6 SoC. +There are currently six variants of this module, that are distinguished +by the suffix: 'Q' use an i.MX6Q and 'U' an i.MX6DL. + +The TX6U-801x modules are shipped with: + + * 128MiB NAND flash + * 1024MiB DDR3 SDRAM + +see http://www.karo-electronics.de/tx6.html for more information diff --git a/Documentation/boards/omap.rst b/Documentation/boards/omap.rst index 5038613335..c2697510c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/boards/omap.rst +++ b/Documentation/boards/omap.rst @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Texas Instruments OMAP/AM335x -============================= +Texas Instruments OMAP +====================== Texas Instruments OMAP SoCs have a two-stage boot process. The first stage is known as Xload which only loads the second stage bootloader. barebox can act as |