From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Ebony development board
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:53:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080211065320.14a4485b@zod.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802110720.12842.sr@denx.de>
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:20:12 +0100
Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> wrote:
> Hi Zoltan,
>
> On Saturday 09 February 2008, Zoltan HERPAI wrote:
> > I've recently got an Ebony board (440GP) with the original bootloader
> > (440GP 1.18 ROM Monitor) which I would like to replace with U-boot. Is
> > there a way to boot an U-boot image via TFTP to replace the bootloader,
> > or is it possible only with using a JTAG? I've googled through the
> > mailing list, but most of the related hits are dated back in 2004-2005,
> > they say no, one have to use JTAG, but some time passed since then, and
> > I would like to know if there is a way for this.
>
> Does the original ROM monitor support writing to onboard FLASH? If yes, it
> should be possible.
It doesn't. Theoretically, you can boot Linux and use MTD on the flash
to load U-Boot. I wouldn't recommend it without a JTAG debugger around
to fix things in case they get screwed up.
josh
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-09 19:37 Ebony development board Zoltan HERPAI
2008-02-11 6:20 ` Stefan Roese
2008-02-11 12:53 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
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