[oe] State of the art for creating an image that you can dd to an SD card

Denys Dmytriyenko denis at denix.org
Thu Jun 26 23:50:10 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 12:23:35PM -0700, Ash Charles wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:
> > "CHS business", as Philip called it, was only partially required in the early
> > days of OMAP3 SoCs few years ago, due to some "specific" FAT implementation of
> > the BootROM. These days it's not required on modern Sitara SoCs.
> Which OMAP3 SOCs need the CHS business?

Definitely OMAP34xx/35xx family. I'm not very sure if OMAP36xx/37xx had a 
fixed BootROM already, but probably it had, as Beagleboard xM was much more 
forgiving to SD card format, IIRC...

-- 
Denys



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