[U-Boot-Users] u-boot on a quad processor board

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20040309163235.37161.qmail at web13808.mail.yahoo.com> you wrote:
> I have  u-boot running concurrently on all 4 processors on our
> multi-processor board. Anyone interested in this. If so I will

How did you implement this?

> clean up my code and submit a patch. Also, my next task is to

Sure, please make your  patch  available.  Even  if  it  is  not  too
intrusive  (which  I  am afraid it might be) to go into the mainstram
version it will be useful to others.

> keep u-boot in flash (with a limited number of commands) if the
> sdram fails.

Umm... This will require significant changes to the code, as  without
RAM there is no real stack or writable .data or .bss segments.

> This is will allow the user to peek and poke from the command
> line to configure the sdram controller or debug sdram so it
> (u-boot) can complete the booting process to sdram. This the
> only short coming I can see that u-boot has.:-)

:-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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