In message 004a01c8f403$f1a4d590$d4ee80b0$@com you wrote:
Thanks for the reply, but I have a few questions. The first is can U-boot load any application other than a Linux.
Of course it can. If you had read the manual, you should have found the section about standalone applications. And of course it can boot a couple of other operating systems as well, which, from U-Boot's point of view, are just different applications.
I simply want to use u-boot as a boot loader, to load a non-Linux app into memory and jump to that app with or without uboot's hardware init. The
If you want to avoid U-Boot's hardware init, then run your application on the raw hardware without U-Boot. But be prepared that then you have to reinvent all the needed hardware init steps yourself.
second wuestion is where can I get some help in doing just that, if it's possible? I don't want to have to build and cross-compile my app in Linux in order for u-boot to load it. Third, if I have to compile my app in Linux, can I simply use mkimage with the hello world binary and do a bootm from that?
May I suggest that you just read the related sections in the manual? It comes with a couple of examples which show exactly what you are asking for.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk