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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 09:01:59 +0100
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] zedboard: add Avnet Zedboard support.
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Dear Spenser Gilliland,

On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 16:28:03 -0600, Spenser Gilliland wrote:

> > What about u-boot?
> 
> Building u-boot for the zed board is not difficult the problem is the
> convoluted wrapper which requires the XIlinx tools in order to install
> it.  I can add directions to the readme.
> 
> The basic process is.
> 
> source <path/to/xilinx/settings.sh>
> cat <<EOF > boot.bif
> {
>    [bootloader]<path/to/fsbl.elf>
>    <path/to/system.bit>
>    <path/to/uboot.elf>
> }
> bootgen -image boot.bif -o i BOOT.BIN
> 
> This file then needs to be placed on the SD Card.

Since we're building u-boot, I believe it makes sense to indicate in
the README how to use it. Could you send a followup patch, now that the
initial board support has been merged?

Thanks!

Thomas
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