[U-Boot-Users] at91sam9260-ek intermittenly fails at u-boot init

[Stelian Pop]

Le mercredi 25 juin 2008 à 01:36 +0000, Norman Cheung a écrit :
> I am struggling with this problem for a week now and not making any progress. 
> So any suggestions, ideas or pointer will be greatly appreciated.
[...]

> The board works with u-boot 1.3.2 and at91bootstrap(1.5 I only have the binary)
> booting from NAND.

The source (for the latest version) is freely available on the Atmel
site: http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=4093

If you really need the source for an older version, I'm sure the Atmel
support will send it to you upon request.

> U-boot fails intermittently at the start.  When it fails, it didn't make it to
> my first printf statement.  When I use JTAG to debug it, it always works.  
> 
> If the board has been let without power for 1+ hour, it will also boot up when 
> I apply power to it(something to do with the battery perhaps).

Did you try disconnecting the battery ? Or replacing the battery with a
new one ?

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> We had at91bootstrap 1.5 working well in 32-bit mode with u-boot 1.3.2.  But I
> don't have the source.

See above.

>   I wonder what is the current stable version of u-boot
> and at91bootstrap? 

AT91Bootstrap seems to be at v1.9.

As for U-Boot, try the latest git (which will soon be u-boot v1.3.4).

(BTW, if Wolfgang is listening, it would be nice to have proper tags in
git as well as releases on the ftp server for the -pre version. Since
the merge window is closed, I guess we're up to v1.3.4-pre1 now, but
this version tag cannot be found anywhere...)

Stelian.
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