[U-Boot-Users] Booting from serial flash?
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Tue Jun 7 11:25:20 CEST 2005
In message <loom.20050607T102607-485 at post.gmane.org> you wrote:
>
> I was wondering if anyone can help me on this matter: does the U-boot support
> loading solely from serial flash or nand flash (i.e. no other flash is
You are asking the wrong question. It is not U-Boot that can or can
not support such a boot mode, but the processor you are using.
> available)? If so, which of the boards support that. I've been digging into
Again the wrong questions. It is not the board that maters, but the
processor.
> the U-Boot files and I found support for compact flash but it exists along with
> another flash memory, where as I need a bootloader running with only compact
> flash.
I don't know of any processor that can boot from CompactFlash without
using a primary bootstrap loader in some other boot device like
standard NOR flash.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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