[U-Boot-Users] minimal bootloader for arm11

satpal parmar parmarsatpal at gmail.com
Fri Jul 21 10:57:23 CEST 2006


 Thanks for your reply.

I would appreciate  if you can guide me to identify  suitable  starting
point for changing Uboot for my current plateform (for example files  or
memory mapping related).

thanks again.

satpal


On 7/21/06, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
>
> In message <457d2dc30607210001p854b854hd639b70b1c7190aa at mail.gmail.com>
> you wrote:
> >
> > a)  Can I use Uboot for our new ARM11 board. If yes. How much expertise
> is
> > required.
>
> Yes, you can.
>
> You need  an  excellent  knowledge  of  your  architecture  and  your
> hardware;   you   need   a  thouroughunderstanding  of  the  required
> initialization procedure on your hardware (CPU,  timers,  interrupts,
> I/O, devices, ...), and standard low-level programming techniques (C,
> assembler, linker scripts).
>
> Summary: expert level.
>
> > b)  If I decide to modify ower own bootloader code ; can you help me to
> > indentify what areas required fresh coding or chagnes in reference to
> our
> > board ; i want just minimal bootloader.
>
> No, we cannot. This is the U-Boot mailing list, and we're  discussion
> U-Boot only.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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