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

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Fri Aug 22 14:41:48 CEST 2008


On 13:52 Fri 22 Aug     , Robert Schwebel wrote:
> 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.
And the beagle Maintainer prepare U-Boot support

Best Regards,
J.


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