[U-Boot] Want to study U-Boot code

Woody Wu narkewoody at gmail.com
Sat Jan 26 14:07:28 CET 2013


在 2013-1-26 AM5:27,"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>写道:
>
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>
> > Dear Woody Wu,
> >
> > In message <CAAsE_ue4VffAioQWzHPpyOZmzoFk9E5S7jj2+2BZuiK=
C5yXtA at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> > >
> > > I want to firstly get a picture to basically understand how u-boot
> > > work, especially on an ARM9 based board. I think not everyone who
> > > want to understand u-boot has to read the full code.  Thank.
> >
> > This depends on your definition of "understanding".  On a highlevel,
> > you might start with reaing and digesting the manual, eventually
> > trying out how U-Boot works on some (real or emulated) board.
>
>   if i can jump in, a good way to start playing is to configure and
> build for the "sandbox" architecture so you can run it on your x86
> system.  for the benefit of a couple friends, i whipped together a
> wiki page for that here:
>
> http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/U-Boot_sandbox
>
>   very simple but enough to get you started, and you can match up
> running the commands with the underlying code.
>
> rday

Sandbox looks amazing! Thanks share me with this info.  But i still
wondering that if u-boot doesnt have any book or document explaining how it
work and how it organized, how pepople can join its development?

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