[U-Boot-Users] using u-bbot with new platform

[Cliff Brake]

On Apr 11, 2005 11:55 AM, Marcos Lois Bermúdez <marcos.lois at teaxul.com> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm a newbye in u-boot, i will use it in a hardware platform based in
> PXA255, iwill try to get ready the basic stuff, flash, RAM, uart, i will
> base it on any PXA255 board that already supported by u-boot.
> 
> My problem is that my hardware don't have a ethernet card, and it will
> be very usefull in the development process, i have a pcmcia card that is
> a tunlip_cs linux driver i think porting it, but i not have idea of what
> kind of considerations i need to taek in mind for pcmcia based card. If
> there anybody that try this, or another pcmcia card that have better
> support in u-boot, please help me.

I don't have any answers on the PCMCIA issue, but one other option
that may be useful is to load images from a MMC card.  A MMC interface
is very easy to get working (3 wires).

See:

http://bec-systems.com/collab/index.php/Uboot_Notes#To_load_U-boot_image_from_a_MMC_card

Cliff

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