[U-Boot] offer: program to deal with kirkwood "boot from UART"

[Prafulla Wadaskar]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de [mailto:u-boot-
> bounces at lists.denx.de] On Behalf Of JPT
> Sent: 08 April 2013 14:44
> To: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: [U-Boot] offer: program to deal with kirkwood
> "boot from UART"
> 
> Hi,
> 
> during my dealing with the bricked kirkwood board I
> wrote an app which
> automates the process of booting from UART.
> It's rather stable now, except right now it doesn't
> work any more.
> It's highly configurable, since the external calls to
> Xmodem and
> terminal go to shell scripts.
> 
> Wolfgang, do you want to provide this app somewhere on
> your site?

We already have kwboot in u-boot that supports boot from UART from kirkwood,
If your work enables some additional functionality/features to it. You are welcomed to send patch for the same?

Regards...
Prafulla . . .

> 
> looks like this now:
> 
> $ ./marvellserialboot --mode bb --device /dev/ttyUSB0 -
> -baud 115200
> Waiting for /dev/ttyUSB0: OK
> Open /dev/ttyUSB0: OK
> Set Parameters to 115200, 8, N, 1, SoftwareFlow: FALSE,
> HardwareFlow:
> FALSE: OK
> Clear Recieve Buffer: OK
> Sending Command Code BB11223344556677: .0x15 OK. Device
> is requesting
> Xmodem transfer now.
> Close /dev/ttyUSB0: OK
> Starting Xmodem Upload:
> sx -vv -b u-boot-1.1.4-netgear-533ddr3db-uart.bin
> </dev/ttyUSB0
>  >/dev/ttyUSB0
> Sende u-boot-1.1.4-netgear-533ddr3db-uart.bin, 12288
> Blöcke:Starten Sie
> nun Ihr XMODEM-Empfangsprogramm.
> Bytes gesendet:1572992   BPS:9666
> 
> Übertragung abgeschlossen
> Xmodem Upload successful.
> Starting Terminal program:
> gtkterm
> Terminal program successful.
> 
> 
> 
> regards,
> 
> Jan
> 
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