[U-Boot] Using U-boot on the IXP432
Martijn de Gouw
martijn.de.gouw at prodrive.nl
Tue Jan 13 22:29:10 CET 2009
Hi,
> > I have been using a board with and IXP432 for about a year
> now, starting
> > with Redboot
> > but running in big endian mode.
> > I am now looking at using u-boot for network booting but I
> would like to
> > run it in little endian mode.
> > Before I get stuck into to porting the code I have a few questions.
> >
> > 1) Has anybody else ported the code to the IXP432?
> I've hear about someone I'll try to canctact him
> but the ixp432 is really simmilar to the ixp425 so it will be
> not difficult to
> port
> IIRC the most important work will be on the network support
> > 2) Is there any reason that the IXP cpu configuration sets
> the bigendian
The ixp npe code is a big endian only binary blob.
If you don't want network support you can run the ixp in little endian
mode.
Gr, Martijn
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