[U-Boot] non SPL boot on beagleboard-xm

[Peter Meerwald]

Hello Tom,

> > I can boot u-boot built from git commit
> > b609009801b8a00644926f49b7d0d0cc0d3d8797 successfully, but it fails with
> > git commit ee08a8260a3a7f6ef2001cfa3e7b6137b485f40a:

> The current implementation (after poking some of the other
> beagleboard.org folks) requires SPL.  It's not a hard requirement of
> supporting SPL that other loaders not be supported, we just didn't aim
> for compatibility.

thank you for the clarification; I had the impression it might be 
something optional as CONFIG_SPL implies

MLO/SPL + current u-boot breaks the USB ethernet patches (i.e. booting via 
tftp)

regards, p.

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Peter Meerwald
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