Vyas Ashish wrote:
Hi Group,
I have a at91sam9261ek evaluation Kit from Atmel and I want to bring up the UBoot on that. When I got the board, I also got UBoot binary which can be flashed and verified. However, I did not get the source code. The code has to be purchased seperately, which I do not want to do. I want to take up the UBoot porting on this board as a task.
Jerry Van Baren wrote:
If you received a u-boot binary for that board, you have the right to ask for a copy of the source that generated that u-boot binary and the company that distributed that u-boot binary (apparently Atmel) has the legal obligation to provide that at a reasonable cost to cover their distribution costs. That is all part of the GNU General Public License. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl
There are Atmel employees on this list, perhaps they can speak to the issue more directly.
Any quick pointer to start with? Do we have some other similar board already supported by UBoot code that I can "clone" to make things faster?
Jerry Van Baren wrote:
I received the following email from Ulf - it appears he is struggling with his phone/email and sent it directly to me only, not to the list. The one that really needed it was Vyas. As expected, Vyas just needed to know where to look to get the source.
Ulf Samuelsson via Jerry Van Baren wrote:
Atmel does not sell GPL source.
Check out www.Iinux4sam.org for U-boot source.
There is a typo in the above URI. It should be:
A later version will be downloaded when You run buildroot, bul that is not shipped with any systems.
Has there not been SAM9261 patches sent in to the git lately?
AT91SAM9261-EK should be available by now via git to the AT91 U-Boot git repository:
http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-at91.git;a=summary
I'm sure you will be much happier with the improvements of the git at91 code than linux4sam.org whose most current code is still _appears_ to be based on U-Boot 1.2.0. (There is a reference to 1.3.0, saying the port is incomplete.)
Sincerely,
Ken Fuchs