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Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch

From Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.embedded
Subject Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch
Date 2012-08-06 14:07 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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On 2012-08-05, David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> wrote:
> On 03/08/12 21:06, 7 wrote:
>> ARM boot technology going up a notch
>> ------------------------------------
[...]
>> Notice the list includes a dedicated SDCard 2.0 interface
>> that allows the ARM chip to directly read an SDCard.
>> Some of these ARM chips have gone one step further
>> and also have extra pins to tell them to BOOT FROM SDCARD!!!!
>>
>> That changes everything!!!
[...]

> And while booting from an SDCard may be a new feature,

Various high end SoC parts have been able to do that for years.

> microcontrollers and processors have supported multiple boot modes
> for decades.  People who actually /work/ with these sorts of devices
> (as electronics developers and low-level programmers) have been
> happily booting from UARTs, Ethernet, CAN, SPI, QSPI, NAND flash, NOR
> flash, and a variety of other devices and data stores in addition to
> JTAG.

Yup.

> Built-in boot rom support for SDCard is nothing revolutionary or 
> dramatic.  It's a nice feature to have, but that's it.

"7" is a classic net.kook...

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ARM boot technology going up a notch 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2012-08-03 20:06 +0100
  Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2012-08-05 13:32 +0200
    Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2012-08-05 13:06 +0100
      Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2012-08-05 16:07 +0200
        Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 15:38 +0100
          Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2012-08-05 16:11 +0100
          Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2012-08-05 14:38 -0400
        Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2012-08-05 15:46 +0100
          Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2012-08-05 21:06 +0200
            Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2012-08-05 15:26 -0400
              Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2012-08-05 20:46 +0100
                Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2012-08-05 20:59 +0100
              Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-08-06 08:15 +0200
                Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-08-06 14:11 +0000
                Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2012-08-06 22:37 +0200
              Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-06 07:47 -0500
                Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch Big Steel <Run77712@Run77712.com> - 2012-08-06 08:52 -0400
            Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2012-08-05 20:35 +0100
              Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-08-06 08:09 +0200
                Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2012-08-06 20:43 +0100
                Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2012-08-06 22:44 +0200
                Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2012-08-06 22:14 +0100
                Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-08-06 22:41 +0100
                Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2012-08-06 22:51 +0100
                Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-08-06 22:58 +0100
                Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2012-08-06 23:31 +0100
                Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-08-07 00:51 +0200
                Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2012-08-06 19:30 -0400
                Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-08-07 01:36 +0200
                Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch Foster <frankfoster50@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-06 20:14 -0400
        Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch Scott Wood <scott@buserror.net> - 2012-08-25 13:39 -0500
    Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-08-06 14:07 +0000
      Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-06 09:48 -0500
      Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-08-06 17:23 +0100
        Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-08-06 18:36 +0000
  Re: ARM boot technology going up a notch "Stonethrower" <digi_64-public[removeme]@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-06 15:15 +0200

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