[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot and PPC

[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot and PPC

[Srikanth Sherman]

Hello,

I just found this list, so please bear with me if my questions are basic.

I'd like to use the 440GX (or 440GP) so I got the ELDK and U-Boot 0.4.
The ELDK doesn't specifically say that it supports the 440 series,  do you
know if anyone has been successfuly in building 440 binaries using ELDK?
Also, I've never used U-Boot before, but I'm *assuming* that once I get
U-Boot running on my board, I can just load up the application built with
ELDK (assuming of course the it can build 440 compatible binaries) and
it should work?  Am I completely missing something here?  Intially, I just
want to get a simple "hello world" program working (ie, not attempting to
boot Linux yet)

Thanks very much for your time!

Sri

[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot and PPC

[Detlev Zundel]

Hello Srikanth,

> I'd like to use the 440GX (or 440GP) so I got the ELDK and U-Boot 0.4.
> The ELDK doesn't specifically say that it supports the 440 series,  do you
> know if anyone has been successfuly in building 440 binaries using ELDK?

I don't see a reason why it shouldn't work - there's even one
supported board using a 440 - but I haven't done it myself.

> Also, I've never used U-Boot before, but I'm *assuming* that once I get
> U-Boot running on my board, I can just load up the application built with
> ELDK (assuming of course the it can build 440 compatible binaries) and
> it should work?

Yes.

> Am I completely missing something here?

No.

> Intially, I just want to get a simple "hello world" program working
> (ie, not attempting to boot Linux yet)

Check examples/hello_world.c which compiles into a standalone
application ready to run from U-Boot.

Cheers
  Detlev

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