[U-Boot] Support for MB86R01 cpu

Thirumalai thirumalai.p at datapatterns.co.in
Wed May 19 08:47:40 CEST 2010


Hi Matthias,

> Hi Thirumalai
>
> Am 18.05.2010 08:29, schrieb Thirumalai:
>> Hi Matthias,
>>         I am going to use u-boot alone for my development. Which debugger 
>> is
>> suitable for debugging u-boot and initial board bringup activity?
>> My choice is BDI2000. Is it ok.
>
> Yes. As I said. But I never used it to debug u-boot together together
> with GDB. After the serial console was up I used printf-like debugging.
> And before that point I could live quite good with simple BDI commands.
>

Whether source level debugging is possible with BDI2000?

>> Also tell me what toolchains need to be used. Is ELDK supports?
>
> I don't know. I used a toolchain which I build myself using
> crosstools-ng (see http://freshmeat.net/projects/crosstool-ng/)
>
>> Whether the video driver is available on u-boot ?
>
> Check my patch series and you will see ;-)
I will check and tell this.
>
> Matthias
>
>> -Thirumalai
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Matthias Weißer" <weisserm at arcor.de>
>> To: "Thirumalai" <thirumalai.p at datapatterns.co.in>
>> Cc: <u-boot at lists.denx.de>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 11:18 AM
>> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Support for MB86R01 cpu
>>
>>
>>> Hello Thirumalai
>>>
>>> Am 18.05.2010 07:37, schrieb Thirumalai:
>>>> Hi Matthias,
>>>>          We are using MB86R01 processor in our design. We just want to
>>>> know
>>>> what emulator/debugger can be used for initial board bring-up activity
>>>> and
>>>> also whether the latest u-boot(2010.03) is supporting this processor ?
>>>
>>> I recently posted a patch series adding support for MB86R01 to u-boot. I
>>> did not receive any comments on V2 so I thinks its more or less fine and 
>>> I
>>> hope it will be merged within the upcoming merge window.
>>>
>>> See http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2010-May/071097.html for the
>>> initial mail of the patch series.
>>>
>>> I am using a BDI2000 (http://www.abatron.ch/products/bdi-family.html) 
>>> for
>>> initial flash programming. A Segger JLink
>>> (http://www.segger.com/cms/jlink.html) works also.
>>>
>>> Hope this helped.
>>>
>>> Matthias
>>
> 



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