[U-Boot] mpc83xx U-boot questions

[David Hawkins]

Hi Yuke,

> What I am doing is to try to load RTEMS

Ok, that info helps.

> It has a BSP for this board.

Thats good.

> All the tools I used are targeting powerpc and tailed
> for this board. 

and those tools came from where?

> But the final executable format is .exe. I am not sure if
> this format is good to download and run on the
> board using U-boot.  I just happen to know there is a
> mkimage utility from U-boot.

Given a file test.exe, type

file test.exe

and it'll tell you if its a PowerPC .elf format.

Before trying to get RTEMs running on the board,
see if your tools can build U-Boot, and build the
standard stand-alone application that exists in
the examples folder.

Here's some notes I wrote a while back for the
8349, which is in the same family as the 8313;

http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/~dwh/carma_board/powerpc_mpc8349e.pdf

Cheers,
Dave