Updating SPL and U-Boot of SD Card and eMMC

To update SPL and U-Boot of SD Card and eMMC, perform the following steps:

  1. Transfer the latest U-Boot-spl.bin.normal.out and visionfive2_fw_payload.img files into Debian OS through SCP.

  2. Update SPL.
    dd if=u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out of=/dev/mmcblk<X>p1 conv=fsync
  3. Update U-Boot.
    dd if=visionfive2_fw_payload.img of=/dev/mmcblk<X>p2 conv=fsync
    Tip: <X>: The application value is 0 or 1. 1 for SD card and 0 for eMMC.
    Example command and output:
    root@starfive:~# dd if=u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out of=/dev/mmcblk1p1 conv=fsync
    255+1 records in
    255+1 records out
    130688 bytes (131 kB, 128 KiB) copied, 0.033136 s, 3.9 MB/s
    
    root@starfive:~# dd if=visionfive2_fw_payload.img of=/dev/mmcblk1p2 conv=fsync
    5469+1 records in
    5469+1 records out
    2800501 bytes (2.8 MB, 2.7 MiB) copied, 0.619333 s, 4.5 MB/s
  4. Restart the system to make the updates take effect.