[U-Boot-Users] How to patch u-boot?

Jerry Van Baren gerald.vanbaren at ge.com
Mon Jan 21 16:07:07 CET 2008


Tiju wrote:
> Hi

[snipped unreadable original request]

> Because in http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Uboot, the bootloader source
> code section says..."The current bootloader patches can be found at
> http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/target/u-boot/patches/. Untar the
> sources, apply the patch, run "make gta01bv3_config" (or
> gta01bv2_config, or whatever hardware revision you have), run "make".
> You will get a resulting "u-boot.bin" image, which you can directly
> flash (either using existing bootloader or sjf2410-linux) into NAND." 
> 
> So, I do not know which version to apply the patches to. How do I get
> the current git head of u-boot or the source code of the current
> bootloader for which the patches has to be applied.
> 
> Thanks
> Tiju Jacob

Openmoko has not been an active participant on the u-boot list.  They 
took a snapshot of u-boot and then did their own patching, but did not 
feed the patches back to u-boot.  The result is a fork.  IIRC, there has 
been talk about unforking openmoko, but that has not happened yet.

The bottom line is that we know little or nothing about openmoko's 
u-boot build methodology.  You need to ask openmoko developers (openmoko 
lists).
   <http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/>

Best regards,
gvb




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