From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:11:02 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Making uboot.bin In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:25:45 PST." <14268613.post@talk.nabble.com> Message-ID: <20071211161102.CBAE4246C2@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de In message <14268613.post@talk.nabble.com> you wrote: > > I have following questions for you:- > > 1. Can we use uboot only for booting Linux? No, you cannot. It will happily boot other OS's as well. > 2. Is the kernel necessary for the board or standalone application alone can > serve the purpose? This depends on that you want to do. If you need an OS, you will want to boot Linix. If you want a simple plain stupid test environment, a standalone application may do. > 3. How big can be the size of standalone applications? How much memory do you have? > 4. The uboot is already installed by manufacturer on my board, can i take > the backup of that from board? Yes, of course you can. U-Boot comes under GPL and you can copy it as often as you want. > 5. For porting uboot to a board what cross compilation tools are required? > If ELDK can serve this purpose? Yes, of course it can. We use it in all our work. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de How many NASA managers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? "That's a known problem... don't worry about it."