AM625: Is there any support for flashing spare images to EMMC?

bryce johnson

Part Number: AM625

Tool/software:

Hi TI,

Was there any support for flashing sparse images (created with bmap-tools) to emmc. Currently flashing with dfu-utils our filesystem takes awhile and we looking at reducing time when going into high volume production.

UUU with NXP now supports flashing sparse images. https://www.marcusfolkesson.se/blog/skip-flashing-unused-blocks-with-uuu/ and https://github.com/nxp-imx/mfgtools/pull/394

Thanks

Bryce

1 month ago

+1 Mukul Bhatnagar 1 month ago

TI__Guru* 81145 points

Hi Bryce

We are working on a multi-device flashing utility , which we hope to unveil late 4Q or early 1Q next year that should help address this.

It is based on Snagboot

Snagboot already supports it: https://github.com/bootlin/snagboot/tree/main/src/snagflash/bmaptools.
Our android flash tool supports it and we will be bring this in Linux support too

https://github.com/bootlin/snagboot/blob/main/docs/board_setup.md

Regards

Mukul

0 bryce johnson 1 month ago in reply to Mukul Bhatnagar

Intellectual 370 points

Thanks for the info, I'll check it out!

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AM625: Is there any support for flashing spare images to EMMC?