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Tools to boot omap44xx over USB. -- NOT MAINTAINED --

USB downloader and USB second stage bootloader for OMAP44xx

aboot.bin

aboot.bin is a designed to be a second stage USB bootloader (what TI calls x-loader) for the USB peripheral boot mode of OMAP44xx.

Currently it's somewhat pandaboard-centric, but that should be easy enough to clean up -- it shouldn't touch any gpiomux config except (maybe) for the UART.

All it does is send a u32 message (0xaabbccdd) back over the USB link, then reads a u32 size from the host. Then it downloads size bytes from the host to 0x82000000 and jumps to that address.

usbboot

usage: usbboot <2ndstage> [ ]

  • usbboot will poll every 250ms until it locates an OMAP device (VID 0451, PID d00f)
  • it then will send the 2ndstage binary to the device
  • if an image was also provided, it will wait for the 2ndstage to send the go-ahead response (0xaabbccdd) and then send that image