[U-Boot] U-Boot support for board(s) meesc, otc570

Reinhard Meyer u-boot at emk-elektronik.de
Mon Jan 24 13:08:04 CET 2011


Dear Daniel Gorsulowski,
> Hello Reinhard,
> 
> ...
>>>
>>> Check that your AT91Bootstrap loads u-boot to a sane address not at the
>>> very end
>>> of DRAM, and that CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE is exactly the address where
>>> AT91Bootstrap
>>> loads u-boot. (I changed AT91Bootstrap to load u-boot to the very begin
>>> of DRAM
>>> for our boards.)
>>>
>>
>> I neither change the AT91Bootstrap nor the CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE address,
>> so the problem must be located elsewhere.

Not necessaryly. You have not changed them, but who says they were correct before?
I am not sure, but before relocation it might have not mattered if they were
different. Just really check to make sure.

>>
>> Today I found out by GPIO debugging, that U-Boot seems to boot but prints
>> its startup messages to wrong USART with proper baudrate. I'll try to
>> find out, why there is no output on DBGU.
>>
> 
> I have to correct myself.
> My board_init() and checkboard() fanctions are executed. But the board
> crashes, before misc_init_r() functions executes.
> (I guess, it crashes somwhere in board_init_f())
> I'll try to find out more infos. But without an appropriate opportunity
> to debug, it will be verry difficult.

I can only advice a step by step approach: Take the at91sam9260ek port and
only change the bits that are different for 9263 and your board. I don't have any
9263 based board here, so I cannot point to a proven, working port for that SoC.

Best Regards,
Reinhard


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