Re: [U-Boot] u-boot 1.1.2 boot latest powerpc based kernel?

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Shawn Jin shawnxjin@gmail.com wrote:

The customer does't want to upgrade u-boot. If linux drivers are ported to the new powerpc arch, is u-boot 1.1.2 still able to boot the new kernel? Besides the bd_info, what else the powerpc kernel expect from u-boot?

The only way to find out for sure is to test it. You'll probably need to enable cuImage support in the kernel, at the very least. No one keeps track of whether newer kernels work with older U-Boots, so there's no way to know in advance whether a specific kernel and a specific device tree and a specific (older) U-Boot will work together.