Boot from Other Storage (POC)

In MediaTek’s IoT Yocto platforms, the Boot ROM (BROM) dose not natively support booting from removable storage types such as USB, SD Card, or ethernet. BROM supports only main storage like eMMC or UFS, depends on the features of SOC. However, it is still possible to boot Linux from these storage types by leveraging the common features provided by U-Boot (BL33).

Platform Variability

The capability of booting from removable storages can vary significantly from one platform to another. Different MediaTek Genio IOT platforms may have different levels of support for various storage types. As new platforms are developed and existing ones are updated, MediaTek will continue to enhance the support for additional storage types gradually.

Please refer to the following pages for information of IoT Yocto platforms support for booting from other storage.