[U-Boot] Support for MB86R01 cpu

[U-Boot] Support for MB86R01 cpu

[Thirumalai]

Hi Matthias,
        We are using MB86R01 processor in our design. We just want to know 
what emulator/debugger can be used for initial board bring-up activity and 
also whether the latest u-boot(2010.03) is supporting this processor ?

-Thirumalai 

[U-Boot] Support for MB86R01 cpu

[Matthias Weißer]

Hello Thirumalai

Am 18.05.2010 07:37, schrieb Thirumalai:
> Hi Matthias,
>          We are using MB86R01 processor in our design. We just want to know
> what emulator/debugger can be used for initial board bring-up activity and
> also whether the latest u-boot(2010.03) is supporting this processor ?

I recently posted a patch series adding support for MB86R01 to u-boot. I 
did not receive any comments on V2 so I thinks its more or less fine and 
I hope it will be merged within the upcoming merge window.

See http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2010-May/071097.html for the 
initial mail of the patch series.

I am using a BDI2000 (http://www.abatron.ch/products/bdi-family.html) 
for initial flash programming. A Segger JLink 
(http://www.segger.com/cms/jlink.html) works also.

Hope this helped.

Matthias

[U-Boot] Support for MB86R01 cpu

[Thirumalai]

Hi Matthias,
        I am going to use u-boot alone for my development. Which debugger is 
suitable for debugging u-boot and initial board bringup activity?
My choice is BDI2000. Is it ok.
Also tell me what toolchains need to be used. Is ELDK supports?
Whether the video driver is available on u-boot ?
-Thirumalai

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthias Wei?er" <weisserm@arcor.de>
To: "Thirumalai" <thirumalai.p@datapatterns.co.in>
Cc: <u-boot@lists.denx.de>
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Support for MB86R01 cpu


> Hello Thirumalai
>
> Am 18.05.2010 07:37, schrieb Thirumalai:
>> Hi Matthias,
>>          We are using MB86R01 processor in our design. We just want to 
>> know
>> what emulator/debugger can be used for initial board bring-up activity 
>> and
>> also whether the latest u-boot(2010.03) is supporting this processor ?
>
> I recently posted a patch series adding support for MB86R01 to u-boot. I 
> did not receive any comments on V2 so I thinks its more or less fine and I 
> hope it will be merged within the upcoming merge window.
>
> See http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2010-May/071097.html for the 
> initial mail of the patch series.
>
> I am using a BDI2000 (http://www.abatron.ch/products/bdi-family.html) for 
> initial flash programming. A Segger JLink 
> (http://www.segger.com/cms/jlink.html) works also.
>
> Hope this helped.
>
> Matthias 

[U-Boot] Support for MB86R01 cpu

[Matthias Weißer]

Hi Thirumalai

Am 18.05.2010 08:29, schrieb Thirumalai:
> Hi Matthias,
>         I am going to use u-boot alone for my development. Which debugger is 
> suitable for debugging u-boot and initial board bringup activity?
> My choice is BDI2000. Is it ok.

Yes. As I said. But I never used it to debug u-boot together together
with GDB. After the serial console was up I used printf-like debugging.
And before that point I could live quite good with simple BDI commands.

> Also tell me what toolchains need to be used. Is ELDK supports?

I don't know. I used a toolchain which I build myself using
crosstools-ng (see http://freshmeat.net/projects/crosstool-ng/)

> Whether the video driver is available on u-boot ?

Check my patch series and you will see ;-)

Matthias

> -Thirumalai
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Matthias Wei?er" <weisserm@arcor.de>
> To: "Thirumalai" <thirumalai.p@datapatterns.co.in>
> Cc: <u-boot@lists.denx.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 11:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Support for MB86R01 cpu
> 
> 
>> Hello Thirumalai
>>
>> Am 18.05.2010 07:37, schrieb Thirumalai:
>>> Hi Matthias,
>>>          We are using MB86R01 processor in our design. We just want to 
>>> know
>>> what emulator/debugger can be used for initial board bring-up activity 
>>> and
>>> also whether the latest u-boot(2010.03) is supporting this processor ?
>>
>> I recently posted a patch series adding support for MB86R01 to u-boot. I 
>> did not receive any comments on V2 so I thinks its more or less fine and I 
>> hope it will be merged within the upcoming merge window.
>>
>> See http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2010-May/071097.html for the 
>> initial mail of the patch series.
>>
>> I am using a BDI2000 (http://www.abatron.ch/products/bdi-family.html) for 
>> initial flash programming. A Segger JLink 
>> (http://www.segger.com/cms/jlink.html) works also.
>>
>> Hope this helped.
>>
>> Matthias 
> 

[U-Boot] Support for MB86R01 cpu

[Thirumalai]

Hi Matthias,

> Hi Thirumalai
>
> Am 18.05.2010 08:29, schrieb Thirumalai:
>> Hi Matthias,
>>         I am going to use u-boot alone for my development. Which debugger 
>> is
>> suitable for debugging u-boot and initial board bringup activity?
>> My choice is BDI2000. Is it ok.
>
> Yes. As I said. But I never used it to debug u-boot together together
> with GDB. After the serial console was up I used printf-like debugging.
> And before that point I could live quite good with simple BDI commands.
>

Whether source level debugging is possible with BDI2000?

>> Also tell me what toolchains need to be used. Is ELDK supports?
>
> I don't know. I used a toolchain which I build myself using
> crosstools-ng (see http://freshmeat.net/projects/crosstool-ng/)
>
>> Whether the video driver is available on u-boot ?
>
> Check my patch series and you will see ;-)
I will check and tell this.
>
> Matthias
>
>> -Thirumalai
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Matthias Wei?er" <weisserm@arcor.de>
>> To: "Thirumalai" <thirumalai.p@datapatterns.co.in>
>> Cc: <u-boot@lists.denx.de>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 11:18 AM
>> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Support for MB86R01 cpu
>>
>>
>>> Hello Thirumalai
>>>
>>> Am 18.05.2010 07:37, schrieb Thirumalai:
>>>> Hi Matthias,
>>>>          We are using MB86R01 processor in our design. We just want to
>>>> know
>>>> what emulator/debugger can be used for initial board bring-up activity
>>>> and
>>>> also whether the latest u-boot(2010.03) is supporting this processor ?
>>>
>>> I recently posted a patch series adding support for MB86R01 to u-boot. I
>>> did not receive any comments on V2 so I thinks its more or less fine and 
>>> I
>>> hope it will be merged within the upcoming merge window.
>>>
>>> See http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2010-May/071097.html for the
>>> initial mail of the patch series.
>>>
>>> I am using a BDI2000 (http://www.abatron.ch/products/bdi-family.html) 
>>> for
>>> initial flash programming. A Segger JLink
>>> (http://www.segger.com/cms/jlink.html) works also.
>>>
>>> Hope this helped.
>>>
>>> Matthias
>>
> 

[U-Boot] Support for MB86R01 cpu

[Detlev Zundel]

Hi Thirumalai,

> Hi Matthias,
>
>> Hi Thirumalai
>>
>> Am 18.05.2010 08:29, schrieb Thirumalai:
>>> Hi Matthias,
>>>         I am going to use u-boot alone for my development. Which debugger 
>>> is
>>> suitable for debugging u-boot and initial board bringup activity?
>>> My choice is BDI2000. Is it ok.
>>
>> Yes. As I said. But I never used it to debug u-boot together together
>> with GDB. After the serial console was up I used printf-like debugging.
>> And before that point I could live quite good with simple BDI commands.
>>
>
> Whether source level debugging is possible with BDI2000?

Yes of course this is possible.  It's even in the documentation:

http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/DebuggingUBoot

Cheers
  Detlev

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