[U-Boot] Building u-boot for Walnut board (PPC 405GPr)

[Anatolij Gustschin]

Hi,

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:11:28 -0700
"Brian S. Park" <brian.park at corelis.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm currently working on updating the firmware on our custom board 
> (based on IBM walnut board) and tried to build the latest released 
> u-boot 2011.06 using ELDK4.2.
> Using the fresh source code extracted from u-boot-2011.06.tar.bz2,  I 
> did "make walnut_config" and then "make". But I get the following error.
> 
> ppc_4xx-ld:u-boot.lds:1: parse error
> make: *** [u-boot] Error 1
> 
> All of the code compiles. I think it's a linker error but I have no idea 
> how to resolve the problem.
> Any help would be appreciated.

$ wget -c ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/u-boot-2011.06.tar.bz2
$ tar xf u-boot-2011.06.tar.bz2
$ cd u-boot-2011.06/
$ export CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
$ ./MAKEALL walnut
Configuring for walnut board...
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 219550   19468   42544  281562   44bda ./u-boot

--------------------- SUMMARY ----------------------------
Boards compiled: 1
----------------------------------------------------------

There is no such problem with walnut board in the v2011.06 release.
Please double-check our source.

HTH,
Anatolij