[U-Boot-Users] problem in booting MPC860T based board
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Fri May 19 11:30:06 CEST 2006
In message <20060519075308.4320.qmail at web8602.mail.in.yahoo.com> you wrote:
>
> while trying to boot it with u-boot , I used
> include/configs/MBX860T.h configuration file . I made
The MBX board is not a good model to use, as it has all kinds of
special hardare which are most probably not present on your board.
You need a very detailed understanding of your own hartdware befoire
you can pick a model configuration.
> 3. #define CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND "bootm FE000100"
Sounds pretty wrong to me...
> initially it was FE020000, but as IP value is 0x0100
> by default, FE000100 must be first location of flash
> to be accessed...(please correct me if i m wrong)
You are wrong. BOOTCOMMAND is a completely different story. Please
read the README and the manual.
> initially it was defined as 0x00000000, i was confused
> here... how is it possible to assign same base address
> to FLASH and SDRAM, as we are booting the system with
> 0xFE000100 , I made it 0xFE000000
Please read the README and the manual, and probably the MPC860 User's
Manual.
> but the board is not booting. please help me to make
> the right configurartion , so that board can work.
It's not that simple. You have to port U-Boot to your hardware. This
is much more complicated than you seem to expect.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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