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[U-Boot,7/7] nhk8815: documented how to replace u-boot on flash

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Alessandro Rubini April 15, 2010, 11:12 a.m. UTC 
From: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@unipv.it>


Signed-off-by: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@unipv.it>
Acked-by: Andrea Gallo <andrea.gallo@stericsson.com>
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@@ -26,6 +26,26 @@  where it was loaded from, the configurations differ in where the filesystem
 is looked for by default.
 
 
+** How to replace U-Boot with your own
+
+Due to the "secure" boot described above, The U-Boot binary isn't
+expected to live at the beginning of the NAND flash but rather at
+0x80800 (offset 2kB within /dev/mtd).
+
+To replace it with your own binary you should either use the serial
+flasher the vendor distributes (there is a version running on
+GNU/Linux too) or with the following commands from U-Boot.
+These commands read 256kB from the are that will be /dev/mtd2 and
+overwrite U-Boot at offset 2kB:
+
+    nand read  100000 80000 40000
+    bootp      100800 u-boot-nhl8815.bin
+    nand erase  80000 40000
+    nand write 100000 80000 40000
+
+
+** Further documentation
+
 On www.st.com/nomadik and on www.stnwireless.com there are documents,
 summary data and white papers on Nomadik. The full datasheet for
 STn8815 is not currently available on line but under specific request