[U-Boot-Users] Having trouble programming u-boot to MPC8560ADS board

Jon Loeliger jdl at freescale.com
Wed Aug 4 20:33:35 CEST 2004


On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 12:22, Abhijeet Bisain wrote:

> U-boot 1.0.1 and Linux 2.4.25

These will be using the so-called "Old Memory Map" on
the 85xx boards.

> >Was the Linux on it MontaVista already?
> 
> No, it was from Metrowerks and was burnt onto the flash. U-boot was 
> programmed to load it from flash and was passing the console=ttyS0,115200 
> to the kernel

So, that should work just fine.


> >What version was this image?
> 
> This is Linux kernel 2.4.20

Interesting.  It would have to be patched a lot, though. OK.

> > > u-boot binary from Montavista  onto the board.
> >
> >Again, which version?
> 
> This is 1.1.0 as i see from hexedit.

This probably has a so-called "New Memory Map" on
it for the 85xx boards.  Note that the U-Boot and
the Linux must agree on which memory map to use.


> >
> >Ewww.  This sounds like broken hardware to me.
> 
> That's what I was afraid of :).

So with U-Boot, can you verify memory at all?

> Thanks,
> Abhijeet

jdl






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