Hi all,

I'm totally new to embedded linux/uboot, but I've been doing embedded work for going on 12 years so I'm not a total putz. We're working on early stages of design and I've been asked a couple of questions that I can't really answer. I don't need to know HOW to do these just yet (can figure that out later), I just need to know if it's possible to do. And before you ask I am RTFMing, I just don't have a lot of time to come up with answers to these questions and they're not jumping out of the FM at me. So:

1) Will u-boot support a compact flash device on the local bus of an MPC8347 (we would like to get u-boot from a small I2C EEPROM and everything else including the kernel from a large compact flash device)?
2) Is it possible to connect to u-boot's "console" from an enet port or can it only be accessed from a serial port? If it can, I presume it can then be used to load new versions of u-boot just like the serial port? (The reason for this is there may not be a serial port available in the final design for the customer to use for field upgrades and we're concerned about being able to upgrade u-boot if we need to ship a fix for it in the future.)

Thanks in advance.

Bruce Leonard
Schweitzer Engineering Labs

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