Hello,
I am kinda new to the Beagle development. I was just curious
as to what is the MLO image ? and how is this different from the
xloader image generated ?
Thanks,
Vijay
The way I understand it, the MLO is the same as the x-loader. Both are
stage 1 bootloaders. They live on the board (in NAND, I think, or a
boot ROM) and have enough smarts to know how to find the 2nd stage
bootloader, u-boot, in NAND or the SD card or other places.
The validation images I downloaded show MLO and x-loader to be the same
file (unless I screwed up the download for some reason):
mjhammel(tty5)$ la
total 10960
drwxrwxr-x 2 mjhammel mjhammel 4096 Oct 27 13:41 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 mjhammel mjhammel 4096 Oct 9 15:01 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mjhammel mjhammel 20392 Feb 19 2009 MLO_revc_v3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mjhammel mjhammel 603 Oct 9 15:02 normal_revc_v3.scr
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mjhammel mjhammel 7999649 Oct 9 15:01 ramdisk_revc_v3.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mjhammel mjhammel 679 Oct 9 15:01 reset_revc_v3.scr
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mjhammel mjhammel 275928 Oct 9 15:01 u-boot-f_revc_v3.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mjhammel mjhammel 275904 Oct 9 15:01 u-boot_revc_v3.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mjhammel mjhammel 2578044 Oct 9 15:01 uImage_revc_v3.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mjhammel mjhammel 20392 Feb 19 2009
x-load_revc_v3.bin.ift
mjhammel(tty5)$ cmp MLO_revc_v3 x-load_revc_v3.bin.ift
mjhammel(tty5)$ echo $?
0
mjhammel(tty5)$