[U-Boot] USB and FAT

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Sep 7 16:58:35 CEST 2010


Dear Dennis Kerrisk,

In message <E1318E0A083BFB4497F69194D590CD8C586EEE98 at MANDI.psaudio.com> you wrote:
>
>                 I have a problem that I am trying to solve with U-boot. Wha
> t I have is a Ubicom processor with 128 MB of ram, and USB. What I need to
> do is load a 12 MB file into ram, and then program the flash with it. This

Please restrict your line length to some 70 characters or so.

> version of u-boot was supplied by Ubicom for their chip. Every time I try t
> o load the file into ram from a FAT formatted USB drive, no matter what the
>  starting address, u-boot crashes.
> What I need to know is this even possible? Has anyone else had this problem
> ? Should I attempt to try the latest version of u-boot? Ubicom has been no
> help at all.

Of course it is possible that U-Boot crashes, for example when there
are hardware problems, or when there are bugs in the port to your
board, or eventually even if you are running into a bug in common
code.

If your board is supported in mainline, then running the latest
version is strongly recommended.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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