On Fri, 2 May 2008, David Hawkins wrote:
>> Has anyone had any experience with Das U-Boot on the TS
>> hardware as a RedBoot replacement? Actually, I haven't
>> used U-Boot myself, but I can only hope that it's better.
>
> I've used U-Boot, Redboot, umon, LILO, GRUB, ...
>
> In my opinion U-Boot is the nicest.
>
> I'm porting it to a custom PowerPC board at the moment.
> The custom board was developed relative to a Freescale
> board, so most of the code existing in U-Boot already,
> eg. CPU support, and device support.
>
> I don't have a TS-7800, but its a Marvel ARM processor
> if I recall correctly. A U-Boot port probably does not
> exist for the TS-7800 yet. However, there will be something
> close in the U-Boot tree,
We use Das U-Boat on our Marvell 5181- and 5281-based products. In some
respects the TS-7800 seems very close to the reference design for the
5182, so I imagine it will be easy to get U-Boot working.
Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
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