[U-Boot] FW: U-boot for Arm cortexA8

Robert Schwebel r.schwebel at pengutronix.de
Fri Aug 22 13:52:19 CEST 2008


On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 09:32:52AM +0100, Peter Pearse wrote:
> > AFAIK no code specifically for Cortex A8 has yet been posted 
> > for U-Boot.
> > 
> > However such code is not essential to use U-Boot on a Cortex 
> > A8 based platform.
> > 
> > Here at ARM we are successfully using the current U-Boot 
> > head, patched for our development boards, but with no Cortex 
> > A8 specific amendments to boot linux images.
> > 
> > Other U-Boot functionality might be improved by specific 
> > porting to Cortex A8, I would be interested to see examples,

Note that U-Boot-v2 has also support for the beagle board which is
Cortex A8 as well.

rsc
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