I can I boot u-boot from flash on Virtex-4 based board

Leonid Leonid at a-k-a.net
Tue Feb 27 04:28:18 EST 2007


On Monday, February 26, 2007 7:37 AM Lorenz Kolb wrote:
> Easiest way is: write some mini-bootloader that fits into BRAM and
loads 
> u-boot from flash.

That what I've done myself. It works perfectly for my Spartan and
Virtex-4 based boards. Simplest way is to compile binary to run from RAM
always and make this BRAM based early mini-bootloader copy image from
flash to RAM and then start. Remember that start function is not in the
beginning of this binary (for PPC 405 it has offset 0x100 normally).

> If you need some more detailed instructions and a patch created from 
> Xilinx'u-boot tree to patch u-boot 1.20 to work with ML403 I can send
you > the files.

Can I have these? Also I'd appreciate to know where to get EDK project
for ML403 whose xparameters.h matches this u-boot patch.

Thanks,

Leonid.



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