[U-Boot] Any help on the sbc2410x board

[Athanasios Silis]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de> wrote:

> On 02/12/2011 19:01, Athanasios Silis wrote:
> > Hello Stefano and thank you for the quick reply.
> > To be honest, i'm not even sure what is the relocation you are talking
> > about...
> > What comes as a natural reply in my mind is:
> > this is an old board , too.
>
> Very old.
>
> > once the code was ported it must have been working, no?
>
> With a specific U-boot version, yes. You can try with an older U-Boot
> version, checking out from GIT former releases, where the board was
> supported.
>

tthat is what i did..
the link I sent was from a Jul 2006 commit.
in fact it is the commit that added support for the specific board...

>
> > with or without CFI / ARM relocation.
> > so it feels odd that I doesn't start.
>
> With current code, it cannot start.
>
> > Besides, i'm not into any major project, so i'm not entirely sure i need
> > to have a latest version of u-boot.
>
> Try with a version <= 2009.08.
>
>
apart from the specific commit I have tried taged version 1.1.6 that one
wouldn't even compile so I take it there was no maintainer at the time


> > i'm fine by re-porting it.
> > only i know fairly little about booting systems.
> > is there a guide for porting u-boot?
> > or any sort of help I can use from somewhere?
> > somewhere to start from that is.
>
> Starting point can be at http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/Manual
>

thank you for the link


>
> Best regards,
> Stefano Babic
>
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