From: Chris Zimman <chris@cryptoapps.com>
To: John Chan <john@corelis.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: u-boot and ibm boot
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:32:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030305183220.GA8768@mail.cryptoapps.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E663ED6.1030808@corelis.com>
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:15:50AM -0800, John Chan wrote:
> my walnut board comes with ibm's boot "rom monitor" (and source code in
> CD). I wonder if I can load a linux kernal image (EDLK for example) from
> it? I heard that there is another boot code called u-boot. I wonder if
> anyone had use it before on Walnut? if yes, do you recommand me to use it?
Yes, the Walnut platform is well supported under U-Boot.
> I would like to add an audio PCI board in the walnut board and would
> like to configure/diagnosis the board during the boot time. IBM come
> with their ROM monitor source code but the compiler is not free (High
> C). I want to have capability to modify the rom monitor/boot loader to
> add my own diagnostic code.
U-Boot is built with a GNU toolchain which is freely available. I'm not
sure why you'd want to configure an audio device inside of U-Boot, since
you could probably do it just as easily in Linux. But if you really want
to for whatever reason, you could do it.
--Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-05 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-05 18:15 u-boot and ibm boot John Chan
2003-03-05 18:30 ` Matt Porter
2003-03-05 18:32 ` Chris Zimman [this message]
2003-03-06 6:13 ` u-boot (Redwood6+ibm ppc405) Rakesh Jagota
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