x-loader misses Beagleboard xM support for boards based on Numonyx memory chips

[Ricardo Salveti]

Current Beagleboard xM boards are based with both Numonyx and Micron memory chips.

Micron would be the final chip, but as they faced some issues with it (memory corruption), some boards have a different memory chip, and this needs to be supported by our x-loader.

The patch to make x-loader supports both Numonyx and Micron memory chips is available at http://gitorious.org/beagleboard-validation/x-load/commit/ead751e4a361ce19552ac94bbeba232f12849244.

[Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti)]

Proposed branch with upstream patch to fix this issue.

The built deb:
http://people.canonical.com/~rsalveti/maverick/boot/xM/x-loader-omap_1.4.4git20100713-1ubuntu1_armel.deb

And MLO from it:
http://people.canonical.com/~rsalveti/maverick/boot/xM/MLO

As I still don't have a Beagle xM with a Numonyx chip, will wait for others to test and report the result.

[Robert Nelson (robertcnelson)]

Hi Ricardo,

Looks good, boot tested on my new Numonyx powered Beagle xM A2

Regards,

[Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti)]

Hi Robert,

Thanks a lot for helping me testing the resulting x-loader. So now we just need to wait for Beta and get someone to push the new package version to the archives.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package x-loader - 1.4.4git20100713-1ubuntu1

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x-loader (1.4.4git20100713-1ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * adding support_micron_and_numonyx_memory.patch to make x-loader
   work with Micron and Numonyx based Beagle xMs (LP: #628243)
 -- Ricardo Salveti de Araujo <email address hidden> Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:30:46 -0300