From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200006071954.VAA09159@denx.local.net> To: "Brown, David (dbrown03)" cc: Wolfgang Denk , Raphael Bossek , Duncan Palmer , Magnus Damm , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: My (per)version of 8xxrom Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jun 2000 11:56:12 EDT." Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 21:54:32 +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message you wrote: > > I am using 8xxrom on one of our modem boards, to start Linux. > I have made several little changes which seemed to be required. Well, IMHO this code needs more than just a few little changes :-( > Some of the changes are to support this specific board. > Others are to allow booting zImage.initrd as an ELF image. > Also I have added a "GO
" command to just jump to an address and > go. > Finally, I added an initial timeout to the serial input, so 8xxrom will run > a default command if left unattended. Thanks for that. > I started with 8xxrom-0.3.0. I heard about patches from Duncan, and I may > have added them, but I'm not sure. Since the compressed tar is small, the > entire thing is attached. I hope this is helpful for someone. It is helpful to me. I will try to merge all patches that I've collected so far. > Is there somewhere else I should deliver this? As far as I know, the > sourceforge home for 8xxrom hasn't really opened yet. Yepp, Raphael has no time to care about this. I met him yesterday, and we agreed to shift responsibilities. I received a message from him today, that he assigned me and Magnus Damm (?) as administrators for the sourceforge tree. That's correct, Raphael, isn't it? I will try to coordinate changes a bit, and maybe start a re-write of some parts of the code. I might have an engineer working on this by mid-July to pick up what we have by then. My current intentions are: * Make 8xxrom run on the TQM8xxL modules (99% of that are done) * Add network boot using TFTP / BOOTP (Duncan Palmer is working on that, too) * Add booting from PCMCIA / directly attached ATA disks (not working yet on the TQM8xxL) * Add FLASH driver so that you can use the monitor to load an image over the network and write it to FLASH; * Add some features needed for safe field upgradability (automatic selection between two or more boot images) The list represents more or less the priorities as I see them at the moment. Comments welcome, volunteers even more :-) Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de Generally speaking, there are other ways to accomplish whatever it is that you think you need ... - Doug Gwyn ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/