From: Tom Rini Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 12:36:48 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] do i have any chance of booting a vxworks 5.5.2 image with u-boot? In-Reply-To: <20160201172016.10313pmhl2gp8isk@crashcourse.ca> References: <20160201172016.10313pmhl2gp8isk@crashcourse.ca> Message-ID: <20160202173648.GE25786@bill-the-cat> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 05:20:16PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i know u-boot has a "bootvx" command for booting vxworks images, > but from what i read here: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24114948/vxworks-portingdm8168 > > it's only vxworks 7 that supports u-boot as its bootloader. i know > precious little about vxworks, i was just handed a version 5.5.2 > image and asked whether it was possible for u-boot to boot it. > > do i have any chance whatsoever? any guidance would be useful. Well, I think there's two parts to this answer. The first is that (on PowerPC), VxWorks has been supported for practically forever. The second is that as the answers there say, you may have to deal with and fix some disagreements about what software (U-Boot or VxWorks) did or did not do what initalization. You may also, frankly, want to start out with a U-Boot of that vintage, see if that works, and if so (and it'd be great to see results and patches if needed) if things still work in mainline today. -- Tom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: