From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Roese Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:21:14 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Help with u-boot 0.4.0 and IBM ASH board In-Reply-To: <919AD798C60DD511B0F00008C786D93C03A3F824@asdbvex02.rmtaero.bfg.com> Message-ID: <00d901c3a1f4$35d2de90$0212000a@pcstefan> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hello Eric! > I have an IBM ASH (NPe405h) board that I am trying to get > U-Boot 0.4.0 running on. > Ultimately, I'll port this over to our custom board that is > very similar to the ASH, but I figured it would be better to > start on a known platform. Good idea! > I downloaded the new 0.4.0 U-Boot and ran these two commands > (after modifying > the Makefile to run 'ppc_405-' instead of 'ppc_8xx'): > make ASH405_config > make all Sorry, but the U-Boot ASH405 target is an "esd" custom board (PPC405EP based) and _not_ the IBM Ash Eval Board! :-(. > It flew through compile and link to produce the nice > u-boot.srec. I put that in > my tftpboot directory, telnet'd over to the abatron 2000, > erased ASH flash and > programmed this new image in there. > > The result is an immediate SystemError LED illumination. > > I then switched from Flash to SRAM (one of the dips on the > ASH board) and reloaded. Running from SRAM produces a program > exception and jump to 0x700 almost right off the bat. > > I am running out of ideas on how to get U-boot and my ash > board to cooperate. Has > anyone else that has tried this had the same problems? I am afraid, but the IBM Ash Eval Board is not supported (to my knowledge) right now. I don't think, that a NPe405h target is supported at all. This should not be so hard starting from the PPC405GP. Best regards, Stefan.