Hello

I want to deliver a new custom computer board with Das U-boot installed. The board is based on the Freescale MPC8248 and so I am starting with the Rattler8248 eval board from Analogue Micro. I thought it would be a snap to get u-boot running on that board and then I could port it to my custom board. I want to deliver my board with u-boot because that would prove the board works and the customer has not decided whether to run linux, vxworks or no-OS and the flexibility of u-boot would support any approach.

So far I have not succeeded in running u-boot on the Rattler8248. I built the u-boot flash image from the 1.1.4 source and burned it into flash with the bdi2000.  It starts to print out part of the splash screen and then stops responding to the console. I check the program counter with my bdi2000 and it is running at 0x01fccxxx. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Here is what comes out on the console.

U-Boot 1.1.4 (Apr 18 2006 - 14:38:09)

MPC8248 Reset Status: Check Stop, External Soft, External Hard

MPC8248 Clock Configuration
 - Bus-to-Core Mult 4x, VCO Div 2, 60x Bus Freq  25-75 , Core Freq 100-300
 - dfbrg 1, corecnf 0x1a, busdf 3, cpmdf 1, plldf 0, pllmf 3
 - vco_out  400000000, scc_clk  100000000, brg_clk   25000000
 - cpu_clk  400000000, cpm_clk  200000000, bus_clk  100000000
 - pci_clk   33333333

CPU:   MPC8248 (HiP7 Rev 14, Mask 1.0 1K50M) at 400 MHz
Board: Rattler Rev. @
DRAM:  32 MB

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