Hi Roland,
If you don`t like me or like my mail style - no problem, i can go away and switch to another bootloader or maybe even other hardware platform.
Please stay and report your findings.
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You completely fail to explain which exact version of U-Boot you are running - it seems to be a locally modified one, probably with out-of-tree patches to support that Dockstar board which is not known in the mainline U-Boot repository. How should we be able to comment on code we don't even know?
Apparently you are right. I did not realize that this is a modified version ( http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/build_uboot.htm ) and apparently the changes (add pogoplug/dockstar, seems much LED stuff) have never been sent upstream.
Anyway,the patch at http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/uboot.mtd3.patch does not seem to poke into the u-boot usb code, so i wonder if the changes can be source of the problem.
Probably not, but it is good to know what exact configuration you test with. As I said, this is a pre-requisite to interpreting the results of your tests.
However I have to warn you that not many people here on this mailing list have the time to interpret results for non-mainline code.
I have seen posts from sheevaplug users which report similar issue, and as it seems, official support for sheevaplug is already in u-boot. Maybe there is a way to add official support for pogoplug and dockstar, as this out-of-tree stuff sucks big....
Of course there is a possibility - simply post the patches on the mailing list. They _have to go_ through the regular peer review process which usually fixes bugs and improves quality. Please ask the initial authors of the version you use to do this. If they do not want to do this, someone else (even you) can at least start to post the patches here so they can be reviewed.
Cheers Detlev