[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot and PPC

[Detlev Zundel]

Hello Srikanth,

> I'd like to use the 440GX (or 440GP) so I got the ELDK and U-Boot 0.4.
> The ELDK doesn't specifically say that it supports the 440 series,  do you
> know if anyone has been successfuly in building 440 binaries using ELDK?

I don't see a reason why it shouldn't work - there's even one
supported board using a 440 - but I haven't done it myself.

> Also, I've never used U-Boot before, but I'm *assuming* that once I get
> U-Boot running on my board, I can just load up the application built with
> ELDK (assuming of course the it can build 440 compatible binaries) and
> it should work?

Yes.

> Am I completely missing something here?

No.

> Intially, I just want to get a simple "hello world" program working
> (ie, not attempting to boot Linux yet)

Check examples/hello_world.c which compiles into a standalone
application ready to run from U-Boot.

Cheers
  Detlev

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