[U-Boot-Users] Newbie questions

[Matthew Millman]

sorry..... just one more rant.......

<rant>
One other point while I'm ranting here... I don't have 12 years of
embedded experience under my belt either, in comparison: I am a total
putz, in fact, I only just got out of university!!!!!!! getting U-boot
going (on any platform) was a cinch!
</rant>

On 9/15/06, Matthew Millman <inaxeon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/15/06, Ben Warren <bwarren at qstreams.com> wrote:
> > There may be some tricks that others can share, but I'm not aware of any
> > telnet or other network login servers that have been ported.  There's no
> > reason you couldn't upgrade U-boot through Linux (or whatever) if you
> > use an MTD-supported parallel flash chip.
>
> From my poking around I've generally found that while it's there and
> powerful: NetConsole  = "Only go there as a last resort"
>
> I've implemented a simple system that works in linux (as above) by
> using the MTD 'flashcp' utilty to /dev/mtdXXX, this works very well.
>
> <rant>
>
> As a rule of thumb we're (more or less) designing our hardware around
> what U-Boot needs (Which is actually a good set of requirements)
> rather than trying to force U-Boot into existing shabby platforms.
> IMHO: If you can't do this you should probably be writing your own
> bootloader.
>
> I'm also amazed at the amount people from large organisations asking
> the same questions that started this thread, We have U-Boot running on
> SEVEN different platforms here, all using different CPUs, two
> different architectures and different endiannesses, from the time we
> started to now I've asked ONE question of this list (which wasn't
> answered, and I figured it out anyway). how hard can it be??????????
> just read the README and go look at the d**m code!!!!!!
>
> </rant>
>
> (sorry about the HTML)
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