[U-Boot] Common u-boot image for e300 and e500v2

[Johns Daniel]

Thank you... answers my question perfectly.

-- Johns

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> Dear Johns Daniel,
>
> In message <ba5d9360901230710s69788c82hceed75a37984d2cb at mail.gmail.com>
> you wrote:
> > Is it possible -- and prudent -- to use a single u-boot binary image
> > for two similar boards, one based on an e300 core and the other on an
> > e500v2 core?
>
> No, this is not possible (at least not with reasonable efofort and
> resonable code).
>
> > My guess is that it is not possible, but I was surprised to see that
> > the e500v2-targeted toolchain did build the kernel for the e300 board
> > just fine.
>
> That's not surprise. When testing, I build U-Boot for  *all*  PowerPC
> systems with the same toolchain, usually using a ppc_8xx- or ppc_4xx-
> configuration. All these images buil without problems, and more, they
> even  run fine on the target systems. U-Boot usually does not include
> any code which depends on such specific CPU features.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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