[U-Boot] Need Help in bulding U-boot-2010-06 for OpenRD client

Prafulla Wadaskar prafulla at marvell.com
Thu Jul 8 08:09:19 CEST 2010


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Albert ARIBAUD [mailto:albert.aribaud at free.fr] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 7:36 PM
> To: Prafulla Wadaskar
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; kalyan karnati
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Need Help in bulding U-boot-2010-06 for 
> OpenRD client
> 
> Le 07/07/2010 13:44, Prafulla Wadaskar a écrit :
> 
> > you should use u-boot.bin to load in RAM @ 0x600000 (TEXT_BASE)
> 
> That's what I do, either through JTAG or by tftp/go in 
> resident u-boot.
> 
> > for boot from RAM, you must need at least SDRAM configured, 
> so JTAG is the way
> 
> JTAG does work indeed. Howvever, when:
> 
> - I power up the board;
> - ROM boot loads u-boot from NAND and starts it;
> - I stop u-boot and get to the prompt;
> - I 'tftp' an u-boot.bin image into RAM at 1000000;
> - I 'go' to 1000000
> 
> ... the tftp'ed image fails to boot although SDRAM is 
> obviously already 
> configured.

This is obvious, since u-boot being copied is not created with TEXT BASE=0x100000, is it?
And I don’t know how "go TEXT BASE" responds to u-boot binary itself, I have never tested this use case.

> 
> OTOH, openOCD boots the RAM image fine, so I guess OpenOCD does some 
> inits that the boot rom plus resident u-boot don't.

Openocd configures RAM before loading u-boot.bin
U-boot.kwb does the same but internal bootROM does this instead of openOCD in case of boot from NAND
U-boot.bin anyway needs SDRAM configurations to be done by someone else before starting execution.

Regards..
Prafulla . .


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