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

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Wed Jan 25 16:20:31 CET 2012


On 01/25/2012 03:03 AM, Peter Meerwald wrote:
> 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)

Even with 'dc off' before you start usb?

-- 
Tom


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