[U-Boot] How to test a new u-boot image over network?

[Stefan Roese]

Hi Vikas,

On Thursday 08 December 2011 17:25:00 vikas.sontakke at emc.com wrote:
> >Then the vendor U-Boot port is broken.
> 
> I hope that is not the case :-(  When they told me that the board has 2GB
> of flash, I told them that u-boot only reported 16MB.  I was told not to
> worry about it.  Vendor saves firmware for their chip (which is a PCI-e
> device on the board), their config files and VAR partition for their Linux
> image is stored in the 2GB flash.  Do I need to push them to clarify as to
> why their u-boot is not reporting the correct flash sizes?

Your choice. If I owned such a "product", I would like it to report the 
correct sizes.
 
> >Otherwise you need to burn the U-Boot image into your NOR FLASH and just
> >hope that it works. A JTAG debugger would be handy if it doesn't work
> >though.
> 
> We have Lauterback Power Debug Interface and TRACE32 software CD.  I have
> been told that it does support JTAG burning.  Now I need to investigate
> it.

Yes, Lauterbach TRACE32 is fine. You can always use it to flash U-Boot, once 
you have flashed an incorrect/broken version, which doesn't allow you to 
update via U-Boot again.

Best regards,
Stefan

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