On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 02:59:11PM +0200, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
Instead of wasting your time with the mainstream u-boot for the AT91, you could try out my patched u-boot-1.2.0-atmel at ftp://at91supp:support@81.80.104.162/ -> AT91 Third Party -> Linux_Host -> Source
To be honest, mainstream u-boot works pretty well for me. I'm even using it on board without NOR flash (only serial and NAND) :-) It is just not as nice and featurefull as it could be.
I have a working dataflash support for most Atmel chips there (board = at91rm9200df). It also gets automatically built by the "buildroot" at the same location.
I'm prefering PTXdist which is building toolchain, rootfs and u-boot as well and is not uClibc centric...
Is that part of mainstream PTXdist, or do you apply your own patches?
My buildroot will build: at91-bootstrap, u.boot, linux, rootfs and scripts for u-boot tying things together, but is of course uClibc centric.
If you have any suggestions/patches, then I would be happy to add that.
I'll look at your patches and try to split them to smaller chunks... Lets see if that's posible.
In the ftp location, there is only a tarball.
I write a small utility which splits the diff into patches which will handle each file. Unfortunately, the way U-boot is structured, you will get files (like $(TOPDIR)/Makefile) which contains the result of many patches. I would prefer a structure where a Makefile fragment for the board is inside the board/<board> directory and the Makefile includes "board/*/*.mk". Much easier to add boards this way without beeing intrusive.
Best regards, ladis
Best Regards Ulf Samuelsson