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| author | Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> | 2018-04-03 10:05:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-05-24 17:16:06 +0100 |
| commit | 676d72d412434ca74ec563de89391f2e3aaaaabe (patch) | |
| tree | 5a2ab28d7a38a3a27ae38c0664c4f4b389cdcd8c /documentation/bsp-guide | |
| parent | 93675b147044ca972a924564100cda72df949b1d (diff) | |
| download | poky-676d72d412434ca74ec563de89391f2e3aaaaabe.tar.gz | |
bsp-guide: Updated SPL_BINARY discussion.
Updated the discussion on this variable in the BeagleBone
example. Took out an older "Xloader" term.
Also, fixed a link to the u-boot.inc file.
(From yocto-docs rev: 5a41c6e7ed6ee6432f7f2c15642f5f98460a1a83)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation/bsp-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/bsp-guide/bsp.xml | 14 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/bsp-guide/bsp.xml b/documentation/bsp-guide/bsp.xml index 24bbeb6628..b22297bc1d 100644 --- a/documentation/bsp-guide/bsp.xml +++ b/documentation/bsp-guide/bsp.xml | |||
| @@ -2102,23 +2102,17 @@ | |||
| 2102 | "MLO", which stands for Multimedia card LOader. | 2102 | "MLO", which stands for Multimedia card LOader. |
| 2103 | </para> | 2103 | </para> |
| 2104 | 2104 | ||
| 2105 | <para>The BeagleBone development board requires a | 2105 | <para>The BeagleBone development board requires an |
| 2106 | MLO file in order to boot. | 2106 | SPL to boot and that SPL file type must be MLO. |
| 2107 | Consequently, the machine configuration needs to | 2107 | Consequently, the machine configuration needs to |
| 2108 | define the SPL as an MLO type file and use it | 2108 | define <filename>SPL_BINARY</filename> as "MLO". |
| 2109 | as the Xloader. | ||
| 2110 | <note> | 2109 | <note> |
| 2111 | For more information on how the SPL variables | 2110 | For more information on how the SPL variables |
| 2112 | are used, see the | 2111 | are used, see the |
| 2113 | <ulink url='&YOCTO_GIT_URL;#/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc'><filename>u-boot.inc</filename></ulink> | 2112 | <ulink url='&YOCTO_GIT_URL;/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc'><filename>u-boot.inc</filename></ulink> |
| 2114 | include file. | 2113 | include file. |
| 2115 | </note> | 2114 | </note> |
| 2116 | </para></listitem> | 2115 | </para></listitem> |
| 2117 | <!-- | ||
| 2118 | There is an SPL Framework documented here - http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=doc/README.SPL;hb=HEAD. | ||
| 2119 | SPL is the "secondary program loader." Here is some stuff from the | ||
| 2120 | poky/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc file: | ||
| 2121 | --> | ||
| 2122 | <listitem><para> | 2116 | <listitem><para> |
| 2123 | <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-UBOOT_ENTRYPOINT'><filename>UBOOT_*</filename></ulink>: | 2117 | <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-UBOOT_ENTRYPOINT'><filename>UBOOT_*</filename></ulink>: |
| 2124 | Defines various U-Boot configurations needed | 2118 | Defines various U-Boot configurations needed |
