[U-Boot-Users] u-boot on N810

[Jerry Van Baren]

Ashish Bijlani wrote:
> Thanks for the response. Does u-boot support n810? Can I flash u-boot
> on n810? Thanks.

No, you would need to port u-boot to the hardware.  The OMAP and the 
necessary built in peripherals shouldn't be a major problem, but you 
would have to get the rest of the hardware like the SDRAM and other bits 
& pieces initialized/configured before u-boot will run on the hardware.

Be aware that you need to be very good and extremely lucky to load a new 
u-boot without bricking your n810.  If you try flashing u-boot, you 
better have an alternate means of reloading the firmware (i.e. a JTAG 
debugger).

I'm curious: why do you wish to replace the n810 firmware?  The current 
firmware initializes the hardware and boots linux... those are the usual 
primary reasons for porting u-boot to new hardware.

gvb
P.S. I have a n800.  It would be cool to have u-boot running on it, but 
I don't see the pain vs. gain paying off.

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Menon, Nishanth <x0nishan at ti.com> wrote:
>> Ashish,
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: u-boot-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:u-boot-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net]
>>> On Behalf Of Ashish Bijlani
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:01 AM
>>> To: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>> Subject: [U-Boot-Users] u-boot on N810
>>>
>>> - took u-boot (ELF) from TI's website for OMAP2420
>>> (http://linux.omap.com/pub/bootloader/h4/)
>> Wrong here. This is for 2420 development platform that you see here: http://www.ti.com/omap2420_devplatform
>>
>> You may be interested in this: http://maemo.org/community/wiki/HOWTO_FlashLatestNokiaImageWithLinux/#a4f6eb951c9d89a4a9027f479f3935c8
>> Regards,
>> Nishanth Menon
>>
> 
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