[U-Boot] u-boot 1.1.2 boot latest powerpc based kernel?

[Timur Tabi]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Shawn Jin <shawnxjin at gmail.com> wrote:

> The customer does't want to upgrade u-boot. If linux drivers are
> ported to the new powerpc arch, is u-boot 1.1.2 still able to boot the
> new kernel? Besides the bd_info, what else the powerpc kernel expect
> from u-boot?

The only way to find out for sure is to test it.  You'll probably need
to enable cuImage support in the kernel, at the very least.  No one
keeps track of whether newer kernels work with older U-Boots, so
there's no way to know in advance whether a specific kernel and a
specific device tree and a specific (older) U-Boot will work together.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale