u-boot and ibm boot
Hello, folks,
my walnut board comes with ibm's boot "rom monitor" (and source code in CD). I wonder if I can load a linux kernal image (EDLK for example) from it? I heard that there is another boot code called u-boot. I wonder if anyone had use it before on Walnut? if yes, do you recommand me to use it?
I would like to add an audio PCI board in the walnut board and would like to configure/diagnosis the board during the boot time. IBM come with their ROM monitor source code but the compiler is not free (High C). I want to have capability to modify the rom monitor/boot loader to add my own diagnostic code.
Do you think u-boot is good enough?
--jC
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Quoted 9 lines · John Chan
Hello, folks,
my walnut board comes with ibm's boot "rom monitor" (and source code in CD). I wonder if I can load a linux kernal image (EDLK for example) from it? I heard that there is another boot code called u-boot. I wonder if anyone had use it before on Walnut? if yes, do you recommand me to use it?
I would like to add an audio PCI board in the walnut board and would
SB Live works well, use the linuxppc_2_4_devel tree.
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like to configure/diagnosis the board during the boot time. IBM come with their ROM monitor source code but the compiler is not free (High C). I want to have capability to modify the rom monitor/boot loader to add my own diagnostic code.
Use u-boot, that will give you the flexibility you need.
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Matt Porter
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Quoted 4 lines · John Chan
my walnut board comes with ibm's boot "rom monitor" (and source code in CD). I wonder if I can load a linux kernal image (EDLK for example) from it? I heard that there is another boot code called u-boot. I wonder if anyone had use it before on Walnut? if yes, do you recommand me to use it?
Yes, the Walnut platform is well supported under U-Boot.
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I would like to add an audio PCI board in the walnut board and would like to configure/diagnosis the board during the boot time. IBM come with their ROM monitor source code but the compiler is not free (High C). I want to have capability to modify the rom monitor/boot loader to add my own diagnostic code.
U-Boot is built with a GNU toolchain which is freely available. I'm not sure why you'd want to configure an audio device inside of U-Boot, since you could probably do it just as easily in Linux. But if you really want to for whatever reason, you could do it.
--Chris
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u-boot (Redwood6+ibm ppc405)
In reply to John ChanHi all,
I am working with Redwood6 board + ibm ppc405. I have downloaded the bootcode "u-boot" and I think most of the people are using the same bootloader. I didnt get "Redwood6" board in "board" directory. Can anyone suggest me how can I get that. And how to load the binary file on the target board.
Thanks in advance,
Rakesh
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