Boot loaders variations for the M805 soc (mk808b plus)

[iparaglide]

I am not finding the info I need about expected behavior of stock boot loaders and where they look first for the next bit of boot code.

Can anyone point me to information about:

1) Whether the stock boot loader is indeed a variation of u-boot

2) What parameters are available to change for the stock boot loader

3) Whether there is the equivalent of fw_printenv fw_setenv (or blparam) for these M805 based sticks. If so what and where?

With my pogoplug I was able to watch the boot process over a pl2303 usb serial connection, but haven't been able to do that with any android devices and I expect it is because the boot loader (variation of u-boot or equivalent) does not have a standard output to the uart.

What I am really hoping for is a boot process similar to my old craig wmt8650 based netbook
where I can manually set up an sd card to run linux without having to resort to dd style burning
to the sdcard. I can just create two partitions, a vfat boot partition and an ext4 partition with the root file system.

The uboot on it checks for vfat and bootable sd card. The sd card has text based parameters to be read next by the uboot. It is slick and convenient and easy to make small changes both to boot parameters and to the root file system.

Does anything like that exist for the M805 soc?

TJ

[noderat]

I was actually just looking into this and I can't get u-boot to compile using the AMLogic sources, I was trying to figure out how to get boot.ini support.