[U-Boot] Using U-boot on the IXP432

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Sat May 2 14:02:31 CEST 2009


On 22:29 Tue 13 Jan     , Martijn de Gouw wrote:
> 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.
do you acheive it?
do you have any news please

Best Regards,
J.


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