[bootlin/training-materials updates] master: labs/sysdev-u-boot-stm32: improve partitioning details (c1c5d5d2)

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Tue Jan 28 15:39:37 CET 2020


Repository : https://github.com/bootlin/training-materials
On branch  : master
Link       : https://github.com/bootlin/training-materials/commit/c1c5d5d2641d7316d6c5571439d05ede111035c5

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commit c1c5d5d2641d7316d6c5571439d05ede111035c5
Author: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 28 15:39:37 2020 +0100

    labs/sysdev-u-boot-stm32: improve partitioning details
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>


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c1c5d5d2641d7316d6c5571439d05ede111035c5
 labs/sysdev-u-boot-stm32/sysdev-u-boot-stm32.tex | 26 +++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/labs/sysdev-u-boot-stm32/sysdev-u-boot-stm32.tex b/labs/sysdev-u-boot-stm32/sysdev-u-boot-stm32.tex
index aeacddfe..d04c2c7b 100644
--- a/labs/sysdev-u-boot-stm32/sysdev-u-boot-stm32.tex
+++ b/labs/sysdev-u-boot-stm32/sysdev-u-boot-stm32.tex
@@ -142,17 +142,23 @@ sudo apt install device-tree-compiler
 
 \section{Flashing U-Boot}
 
-The ROM monitor will look for {\em fsbl} in a partition named
-\code{fsbl1} if that fails, it will look at the partition named
-\code{fsbl2}. So, as far as bootloaders are concerned, the SD card
-partitioning will look like:
+The ROM monitor will look for the first stage bootloader in a
+partition named \code{fsbl1}. If it cannot find a valid bootloader in
+this partition, it will then try to load it from a partition named
+\code{fslb2}. This first stage bootloader (in our case the U-Boot SPL)
+will load the second bootloader (U-Boot itself) from the partition
+named \code{ssbl}. Finally, U-Boot will store its environment in the
+fourth partition, which we'll name \code{bootfs}.
+
+So, as far as bootloaders are concerned, the SD card partitioning will
+look like:
 
 \begin{verbatim}
 Number  Start   End      Size     File system  Name    Flags
  1      2048s   4095s    2048s                 fsbl1
- 2      4096s   8191s    4096s                 fsbl2
- 3      8192s   12287s   4096s                 ssbl
- 4      12288s  131071s  118784s               bootfs
+ 2      4096s   6143s    2048s                 fsbl2
+ 3      6144s   10239s   4096s                 ssbl
+ 4      10240s  131071s  120832s               bootfs
 \end{verbatim}
 
 Plug the SD card your instructor gave you on your workstation. Type
@@ -202,9 +208,9 @@ The ROM monitor handles {\em GPT} partition tables, let's create one:
 Then, the 4 partitions are created with:
 \begin{verbatim}
 (parted) mkpart fsbl1 0% 4095s
-(parted) mkpart fsbl2 4096s 8191s
-(parted) mkpart ssbl 8192s 12287s
-(parted) mkpart bootfs 12288s 131071s
+(parted) mkpart fsbl2 4096s 6143s
+(parted) mkpart ssbl 6144s 10239s
+(parted) mkpart bootfs 10240s 131071s
 \end{verbatim}
 
 You can verify everything looks right with:




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