Optimus Black bootloader¶

• Table of contents
• Optimus Black bootloader
  • Boot device priority
    • Software booting configuration
    • CONTROL_STATUS register
    • SYS_BOOT resistors
    • First boot device
  • USB boot
  • Factory bootloaders
    • References

The Optimus Black

Boot device priority¶

According to the OMAP36xx Technical Reference Manual, section 26.4.4.3 (Booting Device List Setup), the OMAP3630 platform will first choose devices to boot from based on the software booting configuration. If no valid software booting configuration is found, it will read the status of the SYS_BOOT pins to determine the boot device priority order.

Software booting configuration¶

According to the OMAP36xx Technical Reference Manual, section 26.4.4.4 (Software Booting Configuration) the software booting configuration is a data structure stored in scratchpad memory, at address 0x48002910. It is not cleared at reset and can be written with a valid structure before reboot, to take effect.

CONTROL_STATUS register¶

According to the OMAP36xx Technical Reference Manual, table 13-109 (CONTROL_STATUS), the CONTROL_STATUS register provides the values of the SYS_BOOT pins as sampled at reset time. It is located at address: 0x480022f0.
The register value can be read using:

$ devmem 0x480022f0 8
0x25

SYS_BOOT resistors¶

According to the OMAP36xx Technical Reference Manual, section 26.2.3 (Boot Configuration), the SYS_BOOT[5:0] pins are used to select the boot device priority. SYS_BOOT5 indicates whether peripheral booting is preferred.

According to the Optimus Black (P970) Service Manual:

Some of the resistors framed on the schematics were found not to be populated on the board. The actual layout is the following:

	SYS_BOOT5	SYS_BOOT4	SYS_BOOT3	SYS_BOOT2	SYS_BOOT1	SYS_BOOT0
Pull-up resistor	R316	N/A	N/A	R314	N/A	R318
Pull-down resistor	R323	R322	R321	N/A	R319	N/A
Boolean value	0	0	0	1	0	1

First boot device¶

According to the OMAP36xx Technical Reference Manual, section 26.2.3 (Boot Configuration), such as value (0x05) indicates MMC2 as first boot device and USB as second boot device.

USB boot¶

Factory bootloaders¶

References¶

• Optimus Black (P970) Service Manual and Schematics
• OMAP36xx Technical Reference Manual

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