[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot on MPC8280
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Wed Jan 7 14:58:29 CET 2004
Hello,
in message <20040107131759.31653.qmail at web10602.mail.yahoo.com> you wrote:
>
> I am trying to port U-boot-1.0.0 on a board which has
> MPC8280 processor. I have started with RAM boot. I am
As pointed out many times before this is probably not a good idea
unless you know exactly what you are doing and how U-Boot is working.
If this is one of your first ports of U-Boot and/or if you don;t know
the processor really well I recommend to use the standard way of
booting from flash instead.
> using VisionPROBE utility to debug. One of the line
Sincere condolences.
> This line is supposed to move the contents of MSR
> register to R5 register. I am seeing the content of
> these two registers before the execution of the above
> statement and after the execution, using "DR" command.
> But I feel that the above statement is not executed
> properly as the content of R5 register is same even
> after the above line is executed (in my case 40)
> whereas MSR is all ZEROes. Why is it happening so? I
Maybe your debugger is not working as expected...
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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