linaro.org Snowball LEB download page does not mention flashing firmware

[Bernie Ogden]

linaro.org Snowball LEB download page does not mention flashing firmware (e.g. http://releases.linaro.org/12.02/ubuntu/leb-snowball/). The problem with this is that the Igloo Community state that SD card images should be used with the matching firmware flashed to emmc, and I have a case where not doing so causes a problem (bug 950628).

I realise that this page is standard across the different LEBs, but is there any chance of adding a paragraph or two explaining:

1) That the firmware needs to be updated along with the SD image
2) How to do this (see http://www.igloocommunity.org/support/Flashing_howto for a guide)

[Fathi Boudra (fboudra)]

We can add notes like we've done on http://releases.linaro.org/12.02/android/leb-snowball/

[Anmar Oueja (anmar)]

Kalle: Can we add the instructions to the igloocommunity, if they don't exist, and link to them from the release notes for the 12.03 release please.

[Kalle Vahlman (kvahlman)]

I added a section in the Software Update page:

  http://www.igloocommunity.org/support/Flashing_howto#Note_on_microSD_booting

which describes the issue. This could be linked to from release pages to raise awareness of the issue (and flashing in general).

[David Zinman (dzinman)]

A note has been added to the instructions:
Due to differences in default U-Boot environment or firmware,
please <a href="http://www.igloocommunity.org/support/Flashing_howto">flash the latest Ubuntu image</a> to update firmware/U-Boot.