[U-Boot-Users] Newbie questions

[Bruce_Leonard at selinc.com]

Hi all,

I'm totally new to embedded linux/uboot, but I've been doing embedded work 
for going on 12 years so I'm not a total putz.  We're working on early 
stages of design and I've been asked a couple of questions that I can't 
really answer.  I don't need to know HOW to do these just yet (can figure 
that out later), I just need to know if it's possible to do.  And before 
you ask I am RTFMing, I just don't have a lot of time to come up with 
answers to these questions and they're not jumping out of the FM at me. 
So:

1) Will u-boot support a compact flash device on the local bus of an 
MPC8347 (we would like to get u-boot from a small I2C EEPROM and 
everything else including the kernel from a large compact flash device)?
2) Is it possible to connect to u-boot's "console" from an enet port or 
can it only be accessed from a serial port?  If it can, I presume it can 
then be used to load new versions of u-boot just like the serial port? 
(The reason for this is there may not be a serial port available in the 
final design for the customer to use for field upgrades and we're 
concerned about being able to upgrade u-boot if we need to ship a fix for 
it in the future.)

Thanks in advance.

Bruce Leonard
Schweitzer Engineering Labs
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