[DNX#2006040142000017] [U-Boot-Users] Replacing AT91 u-boot

[DENX Support System]

Hello list,

inside the automatic U-Boot patch tracking system a new ticket
[DNX#2006040142000017] was created:

<snip>
> kentropy wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm sorry but I am still facing to problems trying to replace the existing u-boot-0.3.2 with the latest 1.1.3 on a at91rm9200dk board.
> > I built u.boot
> >  make at91rm9200dk_config
> >  make
> > then I reomved R159 from the board and booted,
> > then I sent loader.bin (found on Atmel website)
> > 
> > then I send the just builded u-boot.bin
> > but at this point the AT91 system freezes showing few random characters on the serial console.
> > 
> > If I use the original u-boot.bin 0.3.2 everything is ok,
> > what am I missing ?
> > 
> I am starting here, because later in the thread was to much mismatch
> between the 2 different ways to boot the system:
> 
> 1. Booting u-boot from the parallel flash
> The board is delivered with this option. Here it should be possible to
> simply replace u-boot in the parallel flash. Please check the serial and
> PLL settings.
> 
> 2. Booting from serial dataflash (romboot, u-boot, kernel, rootfs in
> dataflash)
> Principle shown in:
> http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc6067.pdf
> 
> Only for this procedure you have to remove R159!
> 
> Here *no* program can be executed directly, since the flash is *serial*.
> 
> Here we have a multi-stage boot process:
> 1. Internal ROM services are finding ARM vector in dataflash and start
> downloading "romboot.bin" from serial dataflash to SRAM
> 2. romboot starts and sets up processor, RAM+serial
> 3. romboot loads u-boot from serial dataflash to RAM
> 4. romboot starts u-boot
> 5. u-boot loads+starts uImage from serial dataflash to RAM and starts it
> (bug in common/cmd_bootm.c, patch:
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1072345&group_id=65938&atid=512789)
> 6. rootfs can be jffs2 in dataflash, newest mtd sources from mtd cvs
> needed
> 
> The romboot delivered by Atmel didn't set up the PLLs correctly, I don't
> know, if they corrected it on their website. A replacement for
> romboot.bin compilable with gnuc is here:
> 
> http://www.mw-itcon.de/patches/romboot.tgz
> 
> Please check always memory addresses, PLL and serial settings in the
> configs of romboot, u-boot and kernel.
> 
> I can definitely confirm, that u-boot-1.1.2 works fine in that case. If
> needed, I can send you the u-boot config.
> 
> Hope, that helps a step further...
> Peter
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.Net email is sponsored by:
> Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads,
> discussions,
> and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl
> _______________________________________________
> U-Boot-Users mailing list
> U-Boot-Users at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
</snip>

Your U-Boot support team