[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] MPC8360EMDS lowboot option

Dave Liu r63238 at freescale.com
Fri Dec 1 05:00:37 CET 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:45 -0500, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> Hi Dave Liu,
> 
> The following patch adds a configuration to do "low boot" (HRCW.BMS = 0) 
> as well as "high boot" (HRCW.BMS = 1).
> 
> Many people, myself included :o) prefer to boot out of low memory.  It 
> has an added benefit that, if you screw up the image of of u-boot in low 
> memory, you can switch SW9.3 FCFG and boot using the BCSR, which "high 
> boots" (assuming you smart enough to keep a valid u-boot image at 
> 0xFFF00000).

The 8360EMDS u-boot is booting at low memory in default now. You can
change it for high memory. 

> The patch is against the top of the denx.de repository (thanks, 
> Wolfgang, for pulling the fsl patches).

Thanks Wolfgang and Stefan for pulling them.







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