[U-Boot-Users] Installing U-Boot on target via USB/serial using U-Boot commands

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <432F25F1.6070705 at smiths-aerospace.com> you wrote:
>
> An option is to preload u-boot into your flash chip via a chip 
> programmer before you put it on the board, but that is a very nasty 
> solution.  The best solution is to get a JTAG debugger.

I know of a board manufacturer (who shall go unnamed here)  who  uses
the  following  procedure  to (re-) install U-Boot in flash: unsolder
the flash chips, re-ball the BGAs, reprogram the chips in a  standard
flash programmer, re-solder. They think this is cheaper than buying a
JTAG debugger... [No smiley here; guess why.]

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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