[U-Boot] Building u-boot for the AT91RM9200-EK circa 2008

[James Black]

I just checked the ATMEL website and it appears to me that the
AT91RM9200 is alive and well. Distributors are maintainig stock...

Why do you say that the Chip has been abandoned?

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Pink Boy <dasfoo at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Wolfgang Denk sez,
>
>> The thing is: we will not accept any such (new) code for
>> mainline. And switching to using the CFI driver is trivial.
>
> Okay so what I've learned.
>
> 1)You can build the AT91RM9200DK version of u-boot with u-boot-1.3.4
> and it works.  At least I got a prompt.  So one can use the
> AT91RM9200DK as a starting point for the AT91RM9200EK.
>
> 2) At this point I think relying on any older patched version of
> u-boot that supports the AT91RM9200EK is probably not workable and
> not worth doing.
>
> 3) Anyone starting a project based on the AT91RM9200EK is making
> big mistake because the AT91RM9200 chip has been abandoned by its
> mother.
>
> At least I have I have some sort of peg in the ground to
> start with.  Right now I worry about trying to get the CFI to
> work because as a noob I'm in the dark on a lot of things
>
> 1) How to port the CFI to the AT91RM9200DK.
> 2) Create a board support for the AT91RM9200EK based on that.
> 3) Generate patches that are acceptable.
>
> Personally I think that Atmel is doing people a disservice by
> not classifying the AT91RM9200 as not for new designs since
> there is no current support for it.
>
> Matthew Harper.
> Tehama Wireless.
>
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