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

[Jerry Van Baren]

> Jerry Van Baren wrote:
>> 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

I received the following email from Ulf - it appears he is struggling 
with his phone/email and sent it directly to me only, not to the list. 
The one that really needed it was Vyas.  As expected, Vyas just needed 
to know where to look to get the source.

> Atmel does not sell GPL 
> source.
> 
> Check out www.Iinux4sam.org
> for U-boot source.
> 
> A later version will be 
> downloaded when
> You run buildroot,
> bul  that is not shipped
> with any systems.
> 
> Has there not been SAM9261
> patches sent in to the git
> lately?
> 
> (Symbian mail client sucks as well)
> 
> Best Regards
> Ulf Samuelsson

HTH,
gvb