[U-Boot-Users] Newbie questions

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Bruce,

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Second, HTML is considered a mortal sin on this list.


> 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. 

In such a situation you should hire an expert instead of  asking  for
free  help, and accompany this with a "pronto pronto" statement. This
is impolite at least.

> 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)?

U-Boot can be adapted to load data from a CF card.
You cannot boot U-Boot from an I2C EEPROM.

> 2) Is it possible to connect to u-boot's "console" from an enet port or 

Yes. 

> 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.)

Ii is possible. But you will experience a learning curve. In the end,
you will consider adding a serial port.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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