[U-Boot] [UBOOT] AVR32-UC3 (EVK1100) status

[Gunnar Rangøy]

Hi,

I would recomend you to take a look at the comments posted on the mailinglist
earlier:
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-January/thread.html#45925

As one of the developers which were workuing on this earlier I would say that
it is a good starting point for developing u-boot. If I remember correct, most
of the issues was due to an bug in the board we used. (We had to add a fat
load of external SRAM since code execution from SDRAM was unrelaiable,
and the CPU had to be underclocked.)

Also noted that I am not engaged in this project any more. We did this as a
student project, and delivered our result to Haavard Skinnemoen (@atmel),
which probably is the maintainer of this code now.

Best point to start is, i guess, to download the code, check that is compiles.
Then you can add a copy of the board config and customize this for this board.

regards

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Tobias Frost <tobi at frost.de> wrote:
>
> I received a new toy, one Atmel EVK 1105 evaluation board.
> (MCU: AVR32, AT32 UC3A 0512).
>
> The board is quite similar to the EVK 1100. Checking the schematic, the
> changes are indeed minor, (like channel for SPI1 instead of SPI0  for
> Flash memory)
>
> As I saw on the list that there were some patches to support the 1100,
> it seems feasible for me also to add support for the 1105.
>
> So the first question is: How stable / good is the support of the
> EVK1100? I read on the avr32linux wiki that there are some issues
> ("commments needs to be adressed") but I found no details.
> So, does it make sense to use this as a starting point?
>
> I'm new to uboot development, so maybe you also have some pointers to
> get started.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tobi