[U-Boot-Users] new to U-Boot, how do I get started for Atmel at91sam9261ek

[Jerry Van Baren]

Vyas Ashish wrote:
> 
> Hi Group,
> 
> I have a at91sam9261ek evaluation Kit from Atmel and I want to bring up 
> the UBoot on that. When I got the board, I also got UBoot binary which 
> can be flashed and verified. However, I did not get the source code. The 
> code has to be purchased seperately, which I do not want to do. I want 
> to take up the UBoot porting on this board as a task.

If you received a u-boot binary for that board, you have the right to 
ask for a copy of the source that generated that u-boot binary and the 
company that distributed that u-boot binary (apparently Atmel) has the 
legal obligation to provide that at a reasonable cost to cover their 
distribution costs.  That is all part of the GNU General Public License.
   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl>

There are Atmel employees on this list, perhaps they can speak to the 
issue more directly.

> Any quick pointer to start with? Do we have some other similar board 
> already supported by UBoot code that I can "clone" to make things faster?
> 
> Best regards,
> Ashish Vyas

Best regards,
gvb