[U-Boot] U-Boot for MIPS AR7161

[Daniel Schwierzeck]

Hi Allan,

2012/12/2 Drassal, Allan <drasal at wsu.edu>

> Sorry I need to shorten the message, exchange keeps trying to do something
> and I keep getting a message rejected due to "No base64 encoded MIME text
> parts allowed"
> U-Boot list keeps rejecting the message.
>
> U-Boot list driving me nuts... keeps rejecting my message due to the "No
> base64 encoded MIME text parts allowed" error, but there are none!!
> Please see the full message at
> http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~adrassal/reply_2012-12-02.txt
>
> And if someone can explain this strange error message... please!
>

only send UTF-8 encoded text mails


>
> Oh, you are wonderful!  This actually loads up correctly! Thanks a lot!!!
> I am going to paste the output here so you can see.
> However, it seems to be missing support for flinfo and for cp.b (the
> command I use to recopy the flash.
> It detects the FLASH as 8MB, where in reality it is 32MB (or 2 16MB units)
>
>
do you know that OpenWRT has a minimal U-Boot for AR71xx [1]. Though it
supports only some Zyxel board
you have at least some basic drivers for UART, Ethernet, SPI on AR71xx. But
it has no low-level init
support so you can boot it only from RAM.


> If possible, can these be added in?
> And, of course, I would like to know how you accomplished this, I would be
> more intested in learning how to build U-Boot for this platform, and
> hopefully I can get a fully functional U-Boot built later.
>
> I suggest that you try to build at first a RAM boot U-Boot based on
mainline U-Boot for your board with [1] as reference
source. For a fully working U-Boot you need deeper knowledge about how
initialization of clocks, PLL and RAM
works on the AR71xx. The easiest way to get that is to have access to
either sources from an Atheros BSP U-Boot
or a SoC manual. Do you have that?


[1]
http://git.mirror.nanl.de/?p=openwrt/trunk.git;a=tree;f=package/boot/uboot-ar71xx;h=fdf321392fd39a116da6d277fa03403814492ca5;hb=HEAD

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Best regards,
Daniel