[U-Boot] Fw: Re: Re: [PATCH] add u-boot sja1000/can support

Wolfgang Grandegger wg at grandegger.com
Mon Oct 26 15:44:10 CET 2009


miaofng wrote:
> Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> miaofng wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi mike,
>>> It seems there's a big difference between my current project
>>> and u-boot common usage. I can only enjoy the patch myself now
>>>     
>> Yes, can you describe your use-case. CAN in U-BOOT, so far, was just
>> used to send or receive one or a few messages, mainly for testing purposes.
>>
>>   
> what i want to do is something like a protocol gateway. It converts the 
> data from one type to another.
> u-boot has support so many cpu/board/...., i thinks it can do much more 
> tasks than just for testing purposes.
> It could be a non-OS based software plaform :)

Well, U-Boot is a bootloader and I strongly suggest to use Linux for
that purpose. Nevertheless, maybe a simple generic CAN framework could
be useful for both, normal testing purposes and your special app. Some
time ago I wrote a simple framework supporting the SJA100 and the
i82527. I will try to find it now.

Wolfgang.


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