Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of venice/firmware

Timestamp:

10/29/2021 08:17:17 PM (2 years ago)

Author:

Tim Harvey

Comment:

updated wiki instructions for imx8mm vs imx8mn

venice/firmware

@@ -142 +142 @@
 Note that the IMX8 BOOT ROM fetches code starting at a 33K offset (in order to reserve everything below that for things like disk partition tables).
 
-The latest pre-built Bootloader image for Venice is available for download here: [http://dev.gateworks.com/venice/boot_firmware/flash.bin]
-
-
-Procedure:
+The latest pre-built Bootloader images for Venice are available for download here: 
+ - [http://dev.gateworks.com/venice/boot_firmware/venice-imx8mm-flash.bin venice-imx8mm-flash.bin] for IMX8M Mini boards
+ - [http://dev.gateworks.com/venice/boot_firmware/venice-imx8mn-flash.bin venice-imx8mn-flash.bin] for IMX8M Nano boards
+
+Procedure: **(Make sure you use the right variant per your processor imx8mm/imx8mn and the correct device for the emmc device)**
  * Via U-Boot:
-{{{#!bash
-# setup network environment (use bootp or static by setting ipaddr/serverip and optional netmask/gatewayip)
-setenv autoload 0; bootp  # use dhcp for network config but do not fetch a file
-# choose the device to update
-setenv dev 2 # sets MMC device to be flashed - see mmc list
-# set your image
-setenv image flash.bin # with any tftp server directories in front of the filename
+  - for IMX8M Mini board variants:
+{{{#!bash
+# setup network environment (use bootp or static by setting ipaddr/serverip and optional netmask/gatewayip)
+setenv autoload 0; bootp  # use dhcp for network config but do not fetch a file
+# choose the device to update
+setenv dev 2 # sets MMC device to be flashed - see mmc list
+# set your image
+setenv image venice-imx8mm-flash.bin # with any tftp server directories in front of the filename
 # update
 run update_firmware
 }}}
-  - This is what the update_firmware script does if your curious:
+   - This is what the update_firmware script does if your curious:
 {{{#!bash
 update_firmware=tftpboot $loadaddr $image && setexpr blkcnt $filesize + 0x1ff && setexpr blkcnt $blkcnt / 0x200 && mmc dev $dev && mmc write $loadaddr 0x42 $blkcnt
 }}}
+  - for IMX8M Nano board variants:
+{{{#!bash
+# setup network environment (use bootp or static by setting ipaddr/serverip and optional netmask/gatewayip)
+setenv autoload 0; bootp  # use dhcp for network config but do not fetch a file
+# choose the device to update
+setenv dev 2 # sets MMC device to be flashed - see mmc list
+# set your image
+setenv image venice-imx8mn-flash.bin # with any tftp server directories in front of the filename
+# update
+run update_firmware
+}}}
+   - This is what the update_firmware script does if your curious:
+{{{#!bash
+update_firmware=tftpboot $loadaddr $image && setexpr blkcnt $filesize + 0x1ff && setexpr blkcnt $blkcnt / 0x200 && mmc dev $dev && mmc write $loadaddr 0x40 $blkcnt
+}}}
  * Via Linux:
-{{{#!bash
-# fetch your file
-cd /tmp
-wget http://dev.gateworks.com/venice/boot_firmware/flash.bin
+  - for IMX8M Mini board variants:
+{{{#!bash
+# fetch your file
+cd /tmp
+wget http://dev.gateworks.com/venice/boot_firmware/venice-imx8mm-flash.bin
 # uncompress and write to the emmc device to 33K offset
-dd if=flash.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1K seek=33
+dd if=venice-imx8mm-flash.bin of=/dev/mmcblk2 bs=1K seek=33
+}}}
+  - for IMX8M Nano board variants:
+{{{#!bash
+# fetch your file
+cd /tmp
+wget http://dev.gateworks.com/venice/boot_firmware/venice-imx8mn-flash.bin
+# uncompress and write to the emmc device to 32K offset
+dd if=venice-imx8mn-flash.bin of=/dev/mmcblk2 bs=1K seek=32
 }}}
 
@@ -202 +228 @@
 wget http://sever/rootfs.ext4.gz
 # uncompress and write to the emmc device to 16M offset
-dd if=flash.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M seek=16
+dd if=venice-imx8mm-flash.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M seek=16
 }}}