[U-Boot-Users] porting to new board: what to do next?

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Benjamin,

in message <1093964436.17059.62.camel at mhpajh5c> you wrote:
> 
> We're porting U-Boot to a new board. We've followed the plan given in
> the README and have written board.c, flash.c, configs/board.h. We've
> flashed it and ... well, nothing happens. Nothing at all.

This is normal.

> What I need to know is, how do I find out what U-Boot is up to? Is there
> a way to debug it from the beginning? I've got it connected serially
> (unfortunately, our debugger works under windows, so we've got to use
> HyperTerminal) but nothing shows up at all.

Attach a BDI2000, and connect to it using GDB. See section "Debugging
of U-Boot" in the manual.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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