[U-Boot-Users] das u-boot and disc on chip

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <42235801.5040600 at esem.com> you wrote:
> 
> currently I try to bring up a LH7A404 board with a M-Systems G3 Disc on 
> Chip as the boot device. Is it possible to modify das u-boot to be used 
> in such an environment? Or has anyone already made an effort in this 
> direction?

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "boot device". It is no problem
to use DoC as boot device for an OS, for  example  to  load  a  Linux
kernel from it and/or use it as filesystem later.

> The device has a 2k xip area from where an initial loader could move the 
> rest of das u-boot to ram to execute it from there.

You would have to write your own separate bootstrap loader then. IMHO
this is not woth the trouble.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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