From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Roese Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 17:51:44 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] How to test a new u-boot image over network? In-Reply-To: <629D989C137DD040A0A994BD21888F1E75E81EAC@MX29A.corp.emc.com> References: <629D989C137DD040A0A994BD21888F1E75E81D17@MX29A.corp.emc.com> <201112080830.03312.sr@denx.de> <629D989C137DD040A0A994BD21888F1E75E81EAC@MX29A.corp.emc.com> Message-ID: <201112081751.45438.sr@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 Hi Vikas, On Thursday 08 December 2011 17:25:00 vikas.sontakke at emc.com wrote: > >Then the vendor U-Boot port is broken. > > I hope that is not the case :-( When they told me that the board has 2GB > of flash, I told them that u-boot only reported 16MB. I was told not to > worry about it. Vendor saves firmware for their chip (which is a PCI-e > device on the board), their config files and VAR partition for their Linux > image is stored in the 2GB flash. Do I need to push them to clarify as to > why their u-boot is not reporting the correct flash sizes? Your choice. If I owned such a "product", I would like it to report the correct sizes. > >Otherwise you need to burn the U-Boot image into your NOR FLASH and just > >hope that it works. A JTAG debugger would be handy if it doesn't work > >though. > > We have Lauterback Power Debug Interface and TRACE32 software CD. I have > been told that it does support JTAG burning. Now I need to investigate > it. Yes, Lauterbach TRACE32 is fine. You can always use it to flash U-Boot, once you have flashed an incorrect/broken version, which doesn't allow you to update via U-Boot again. Best regards, Stefan -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-0 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: office at denx.de