[FE training-materials-updates] Make nboot instructions more explicit
Michael Opdenacker
michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com
Wed Mar 26 11:34:23 CET 2014
Repository : git://git.free-electrons.com/training-materials.git
On branch : master
Link : http://git.free-electrons.com/training-materials/commit/?id=592544a131580132a069dd1aee4cb8e0b8eb3513
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commit 592544a131580132a069dd1aee4cb8e0b8eb3513
Author: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com>
Date: Wed Mar 26 11:33:18 2014 +0100
Make nboot instructions more explicit
- Suggestions from a participant to the embedded
Linux course.
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com>
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592544a131580132a069dd1aee4cb8e0b8eb3513
.../sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling.tex | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/labs/sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling/sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling.tex b/labs/sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling/sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling.tex
index 4329fbb..8821035 100644
--- a/labs/sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling/sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling.tex
+++ b/labs/sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling/sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling.tex
@@ -219,7 +219,8 @@ bootm 0x80000000 - 0x81000000
\end{verbatim}
\code{nboot} copies the kernel to RAM, using the \code{uImage} headers
-to know how many bytes to copy. You could have used \code{nand read
+to know how many bytes to copy. To load the kernel
+to RAM, image, you could have used \code{nand read
0x80000000 0x300000 0x500000}, but you would have copied more bytes than
the actual size of your kernel. \footnote{\code{nboot} can save a lot
of boot time, as it avoids having to copy a pessimistic number of
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