[U-Boot] How to boot a newer version of u-boot from a older one?

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sun Jun 5 21:37:27 CEST 2011


Dear Bear,

please keep the mailing list on Cc:.

In message <4DEB3B83.8010608 at Gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> I sent that email via Thunderbird as Plain Text. Maybe it caused by my 
> UTF-8 encoding? I am very sorry about that.

I don't know.

> > For I have no USBTAP, there are no way for me to flush either NOR Flash
> > or NAND Flash, so I am afraid if I install my u-boot to NOR Flash and
> > that u-boot cannot run correctly, my board would be unavailable. So I
> > wanna boot the latest version of u-boot from the original one. I tried
> > these:
> > => tftp 0x01000000 u-boot.bin
> > => go 0x01000000
> >
> > But my board reset automatically. Could you tell me how to do with this?

This doesn't work.  See the explanation in the FAQ:
http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/CanUBootBeConfiguredSuchThatItCanBeStartedInRAM

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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If it has syntax, it isn't user friendly.


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