[U-Boot] Firmware Upgrade

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Rahanesh,

In message <4AAF9A1F.1060206 at tataelxsi.co.in> you wrote:
> 
> Thank you very much for the reply!!!

You are welcome.

> Few questions:

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> 1)   You said " If your environment is stored in NOR or NAND flash, then 
> you can use
>
>           the tools from the tools/env/ directory (fw_setenv / fw_printenv)."
>
>    *It is already stored in NOR Flash. This is not in a separate partition.
> Should it be in a separate partition?

That's fine. A separate partition is not needed. the fw_*env tools can
be easily configured for your setup.

>    Currently uboot.bin and environment variable are in mtd1 partition. Any
> problem? Should i create another partition for environment variables alone?

No changes are necessary.

> *2) I have downloaded these tools from*
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/uboot-envtools *. I am not
> able to make it. I need to cross compile this for MIPS. Can u suggest
> me an url where i can get the stable and compilable src code.

The tools come as part of the U-Boot source code. Please see
http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/SourceCode  for details.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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