[U-Boot] Need Help in bulding U-boot-2010-06 for OpenRD client
Prafulla Wadaskar
prafulla at marvell.com
Wed Jul 7 10:09:00 CEST 2010
> -----Original Message-----
> From: u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de
> [mailto:u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de] On Behalf Of Albert ARIBAUD
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 10:03 PM
> To: u-boot at lists.denx.de; kalyan karnati
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Need Help in bulding U-boot-2010-06 for
> OpenRD client
>
> Le 06/07/2010 17:47, kalyan karnati a écrit :
> > Hi Albert,
> > Thanks for your reply.
> >
> > I compiled U-boot with the patch that enables support for
> > OpenRD_client and OpenRD_ultimate given by Tanmay.
> > OpenRD Client is connected to PC/Host with FTDI programmed
> for Channel
> > A as CPU FIFO.
> >
> > I'm using the binary for OpenOCD that I got from Marvell to tranfer
> > uboot.bin into board's NAND.
> > I copied the 'u-boot-2010.06.bin' in to
> > ~\openocd\openocd.binaries.libftdi/bin as 'uboot.bin'.
> > Then executed the command ' ./openocd –f target/board/openrd.cfg –c
> > init -c openrd_reflash_uboot'
> >
> > Logs show:
> > wrote file uboot.bin to NAND flash 0 up to offset
> 0x0004e800 in 50.190395s
> > Info : JTAG tap: feroceon.cpu tap/device found: 0x20a023d3
> > (Manufacturer: 0x1e9, Part: 0x0a02, Version: 0x2)
> > Info : JTAG Tap/device matched
> >
> > But then the board doesn't boot and the console is all blank :(
> > Please let me know if I'm doing something wrong..
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kalyan.
>
> Hi Kalyan,
>
> At the moment the openrd image will only run if loaded into
> RAM through
> openocd.
>
> I'd discussed with Tanmay about running the openrd binary:
> I'd tried to
> load it into RAM from the resident u-boot via TFTP, and that
> fails too.
>
> In your case it will also certainly fail because the board
> config file
> contains #define CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT, which as the name implies
> skips very early and critical initialization code -- and without this
> code u-boot won't start from Flash (this config option is
> used precisely
> when running u-boot from RAM).
On Kirkwood boards, best way is to create kwb target (i.e. u-boot.kwb)
for details refer doc/README.kwbimage
Regards..
Prafulla . .
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