From: Dave Liu Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:49:56 +0000 (+0800) Subject: doc: english polishing for README.sata X-Git-Url: http://git.dujemihanovic.xyz/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e8f7ba404f1409606962815ecc955a06984b08b3;p=u-boot.git doc: english polishing for README.sata according to gvb's suggestion, polishing for the doc. Signed-off-by: Jerry Van Baren Signed-off-by: Dave Liu --- diff --git a/doc/README.sata b/doc/README.sata index 168dc7f540..d0ce6673b0 100644 --- a/doc/README.sata +++ b/doc/README.sata @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ 1. SATA usage in U-boot - Two ways to operate the hard disk + There are two ways to operate the hard disk - * Raw read/write block from/to SATA hard disk; - * ext2load read file from ext2 filesytem in hard disk + * Read/write raw blocks from/to SATA hard disk + * ext2load to read a file from ext2 file system -1.0 How to know the information of SATA hard disk? +1.0 How to read the SATA hard disk's information? => sata info @@ -14,11 +14,12 @@ SATA device 0: Model: ST3320620AS Firm: 3.AAD Ser#: 4QF01ZTN Supports 48-bit addressing Capacity: 305245.3 MB = 298.0 GB (625142448 x 512) -1.1 How to save the kernel, filesystem, dtb to SATA hard disk with raw? +1.1 How to raw write the kernel, file system, dtb to a SATA hard disk? - Notes: 0x1000 sectors = 2 MBytes + Notes: Hard disk sectors are normally 512 bytes, so + 0x1000 sectors = 2 MBytes - wirte kernel + write kernel => tftp 40000 /tftpboot/uImage.837x => sata write 40000 0 2000 @@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ SATA device 0: Model: ST3320620AS Firm: 3.AAD Ser#: 4QF01ZTN => tftp 40000 /tftpboot/mpc837xemds.dtb => sata write 40000 a000 1000 -1.2 How to read the kernel, filesystem, dtb from SATA hard disk with raw? +1.2 How to raw read the kernel, file system, dtb from a SATA hard disk? load kernel => sata read 200000 0 2000 @@ -44,11 +45,10 @@ SATA device 0: Model: ST3320620AS Firm: 3.AAD Ser#: 4QF01ZTN boot => bootm 200000 1000000 2000000 -1.3 How to load image from ext2 filesystem in U-boot? +1.3 How to load an image from an ext2 file system in U-boot? - U-boot doesn't support ext2 write to hard disk, so - you have to write the image to hard disk under Linux env, - before you load image from ext2 filesystem. + U-boot doesn't support writing to an ext2 file system, so the + files must be written by other means (e.g. linux). => ext2ls sata 0:1 / 4096 .