[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot WinCE booting support?

[Stefan Roese]

Hi Andrea,

On Thursday 07 February 2008, R&D4 wrote:
> we are currently using u-boot (1.2.0) on our ARM9 based platform to boot
> WinCE 4.2, 5.0 and 6.0 images (.bin).
> More than this we also changes some part of WinCE BSP to allow passing
> "kernel bootline parameters" (as much like in linux ;-) ) to configure
> console output (on serial line) or ip configuration.

Thanks. That's good news.

> If you want I can send you the patch: it's a bit "ugly" ;-) but it can
> be made platform indipendent with ease.
> Basically it adds a new command (bootwince) which is much like bootm,
> but "check AND decompress" .bin images and run WinCE.
> Of course the WinCE image can be started directly RAM (e.g. downloaded
> via TFTP for debugging pourpose) or from Flash (for stand alone
> operations).

Yes, please send me the patch. Perhaps we will clean it up and integrate it 
into the common source.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Stefan

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