uboot 1.3.0 compatible with linux 2.6.21?
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Dec 23 09:52:04 EST 2008
Joe Shmo wrote:
> I'm using a board that is a derivative of the 8313ERDB
> board. The freescale BSP for that board included a
> patched uboot 1.1.6 that works with the 2.6.21 kernel.
[snip]
> I've changed the DTS file describing our hardware and
> recompiled it, but no luck. I'm wondering if the
> different versions of uboot manipulate the DTS file in
> different ways and there may not be a way for these
> two versions to run together. That's the main
> question here.
Yes, there have been some changes. U-boot is probably looking for
network aliases to fill in the MAC addresses.
At the very least, use a newer DTS file; better yet, use the latest
upstream u-boot and kernel rather than anything from the BSP (unless
there's something you really need that isn't upstream).
-Scott
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