------------------------------------------------- Simple steps used to test the QSPI at U-Boot ------------------------------------------------- For #1, build the patched U-Boot and load MLO/u-boot.img ---------------------------------- Boot from another medium like MMC ---------------------------------- U-Boot# mmc dev 0 mmc0 is current device U-Boot# fatload mmc 0 0x82000000 MLO reading MLO 55872 bytes read in 8 ms (6.7 MiB/s) U-Boot# fatload mmc 0 0x83000000 u-boot.img reading u-boot.img 248600 bytes read in 19 ms (12.5 MiB/s) -------------------------------------------------- Commands to erase/write u-boot/mlo to flash device -------------------------------------------------- U-Boot# sf probe 0 SF: Detected S25FL256S_64K with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 32 MiB, mapped at 5c000000 SF: Warning - Only lower 16MiB accessible, Full access #define CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_BAR U-Boot# sf erase 0 0x10000 SF: 65536 bytes @ 0x0 Erased: OK U-Boot# sf erase 0x20000 0x10000 SF: 65536 bytes @ 0x20000 Erased: OK U-Boot# sf erase 0x30000 0x10000 SF: 65536 bytes @ 0x30000 Erased: OK U-Boot# sf erase 0x40000 0x10000 SF: 65536 bytes @ 0x40000 Erased: OK U-Boot# sf erase 0x50000 0x10000 SF: 65536 bytes @ 0x50000 Erased: OK U-Boot# sf erase 0x60000 0x10000 SF: 65536 bytes @ 0x60000 Erased: OK U-Boot# sf write 82000000 0 0x10000 SF: 65536 bytes @ 0x0 Written: OK U-Boot# sf write 83000000 0x20000 0x60000 SF: 393216 bytes @ 0x20000 Written: OK For #2, set sysboot to QSPI-1 boot mode(SYSBOOT[5:0] = 100110) and power on. ROM should find the GP header at offset 0 and load/execute SPL. SPL then detects that ROM was in QSPI-1 mode (boot code 10) and attempts to find a U-Boot image header at offset 0x20000 (set in the config file) and proceeds to load that image using the U-Boot image payload offset/size from the header. It will then start U-Boot.