[U-Boot] Marvell Kirkwood Guruplug Server Standard upgrade uboot and standalone app issue

[Chris Packham]

Hi

On 6/05/2017 3:57 PM, "Kernel Hacker" <kernel.hacker8 at gmail.com> wrote:

On 04/25/2017 09:04 PM, Kernel Hacker wrote:

> I have a Guruplug server standard that I would like to upgrade with a
> newer version of u-boot. Serial output during boot currently shows the
> following:
>
> ----------------cut----------------
>
> U-Boot 2009.11-rc1-00602-g8e6db3d (Dec 24 2009 - 03:11:17)
> Marvell-Plug2
>
> SoC:   Kirkwood 88F6281_A0
>

[...]


I cloned git://git.denx.de/u-boot-marvell.git and built u-boot off master
> branch:
>
> make mrproper
> make guruplug_config
> make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-eabi- u-boot.kwb
>
>
No one have any idea? Can someone tell me whether this is the right
repo/branch for the guruplug server standard and this uboot should work
with it?


Also, to do a sanity check I tried to get the standalone hello_world.bin to
> run in the current u-boot and I am unable to get this to work. I loaded the
> hellow_world.bin to 0x0c100000 (tftp 0x0c100000 hello_world.bin" and then I
> issue "go 0x0c100000" and again nothing is printed after the "Starting
> application at ..." is printed by u-boot.
>
>
Any ideas what can be wrong?


Sorry I can't answer your specific questions but if you want to avoid
flashing a board take a look at the kwboot tool. I've used it quite
successfully on boards with similar Marvell processors test out new images
and to unbrick boards.