[U-Boot] about flashing the u-boot

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Dec 15 20:31:29 CET 2011


On 12/14/2011 09:01 PM, Aggrwal Poonam-B10812 wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de [mailto:u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de]
>> On Behalf Of Érico Porto
>> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 8:14 AM
>> To: u-boot at lists.denx.de
>> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] about flashing the u-boot
>>
>> Got a USB TAP, but unfortunately it is supposed to be used with Code
>> Warrior. Any software that allows me to use it to flash a ppc?
>>
>> Érico V. Porto
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Érico Porto
>> <ericoporto2008 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> Is it possible to flash a ppc board, that already has an older u-boot
>>> version, without using a jtag interface? I mean, I know I can write
>>> the filesystem using tftpboot, is it possible to also use it to write
>>> over u-boot? If no, is there any alternative to use jtag?
>>>
> You can use tftp to reflash the bootloader onto the ppc board.

Just be aware that if the new image doesn't work, you'll need jtag (or
an alternative boot source such as NAND) to recover.

-Scott



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