Booting, Able – ADLINK aTCA-N700 User Manual

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aTCA-N700 SW Users Guide

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5. Booting



The aTCA-N700 provides various NVMs (Non Volatile memory) to store software
images and log system events for different purposes, especially used for a booting
procedure.

The memory map for the devices is illustrated in Table 5-1.

Table 5-1 NVM Map

Host

Device

Size

Contents format U-Boot

linux

Remark

0xA0000

U-Boot
image

binary read/write

/dev/mtd0

0x20000

U-Boot
Env.

binary read/write

/dev/mtd1

SPI_FLASH1

0x40000 Reserved binary read/write /dev/mtd2

0xA0000

U-Boot
image

binary read/write

/dev/mtd0

0x20000

U-Boot
Env.

binary read/write

/dev/mtd1

SPI_FLASH2

0x40000 Reserved binary read/write /dev/mtd2

Same S/W
access point to
SPI_FLASH1,
SPI_FLASH2.
Selected by a
CPLD register

256 MiB

OS
images

VFAT read

only

/dev/sda1
(/bootA)

256 MiB

System
config

EXT3

no
access

/dev/sda2
(/var/NVMA)

CHIP_SSD1

(remains)

user
defined

user
defined

no
access

/dev/sda3

256 MiB

OS
images

VFAT read

only

/dev/sda4
(/var/bootB)

256 MiB

System
config

EXT3

no
access

/dev/sda5
(/var/NVMB)

LMP

CHIP_SSD2

(remains)

user
defined

user
defined

no
access

/dev/sda6

1MiB

U-Boot
image

binary read/write

/dev/mtd0

6MiB Reserved

binary

read/write

/dev/mtd1

NOR_FLASH1

1MiB

U-Boot
Env.

binary read/write

/dev/mtd2

1MiB

U-Boot
image

binary read/write

/dev/mtd0

6MiB Reserved

binary

read/write

/dev/mtd1

NOR_FLASH2

1MiB

U-Boot
Env.

binary read/write

/dev/mtd2

Same S/W
access point to
NOR_FLASH1,
NOR_FLASH2.
Selected by a
CPLD register

256 MiB

OS
images

UBIFS read

only

/dev/ubi0
(/bootA)

256 MiB

System
config

UBIFS

no
access

/dev/ubi1
(/var/NVMA)

NAND_FLASH1

(remains)

user
defined

user
defined

no
access

-

256 MiB

OS
images

UBIFS read

only

/dev/ubi2
(/bootB)

256 MiB

System
config

UBIFS

no
access

/dev/ubi3
(/var/NVMB)

OCTEON_R

NAND_FLASH2

(remains)

user
defined

user
defined

no
access

-

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