mpc8315e-rdb: add the example about booting from jffs2 root

(From meta-yocto rev: 93b86fc3e5abee5b5596579a65546b09d0c5f66a)

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <kexin.hao@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/README.hardware b/README.hardware
index f11fdd7794..d8faaa3bdb 100644
--- a/README.hardware
+++ b/README.hardware
@@ -324,6 +324,22 @@ Load the kernel and dtb (device tree blob), and boot the system as follows:
  => tftp 2000000 uImage-mpc8315e-rdb.dtb
  => bootm 1000000 - 2000000
 
+--- Booting from JFFS2 root ---
+
+ 1. First boot the board with NFS root.
+
+ 2. Erase the MTD partition which will be used as root:
+
+    $ flash_eraseall  /dev/mtd3
+
+ 3. Copy the JFFS2 image to the MTD partition:
+
+    $ flashcp core-image-minimal-mpc8315e-rdb.jffs2 /dev/mtd3
+
+ 4. Then reboot the board and set up the environment in U-Boot:
+
+    => setenv bootargs root=/dev/mtdblock3 rootfstype=jffs2 console=ttyS0,115200
+
 
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