Re: u-boot and ibm boot

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:15:50AM -0800, John Chan wrote:

Hello, folks,

my walnut board comes with ibm's boot "rom monitor" (and source code in
CD). I wonder if I can load a linux kernal image (EDLK for example) from
it? I heard that there is another boot code called u-boot. I wonder if
anyone had use it before on Walnut? if yes, do you recommand me to use it?

I would like to add an audio PCI board in the walnut board and would

SB Live works well, use the linuxppc_2_4_devel tree.

like to configure/diagnosis the board during the boot time. IBM come
with their ROM monitor source code but the compiler is not free (High
C). I want to have capability to modify the rom monitor/boot loader to
add my own diagnostic code.

Use u-boot, that will give you the flexibility you need.

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Matt Porter
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