U-Boot booting RTEMS

emanuel stiebler emu at ecubics.com
Thu Feb 27 17:21:16 UTC 2003


Erwin Rol wrote:
 > Hey all,
 >
 > I dunno if anybody else is already using U-Boot( AKA PPCBoot ) with
 > RTEMS, but i made a small patch for U-Boot (which i will submit shortly
 > to the U-Boot maintainers ) that give mkimage the posibility to create
 > gzipped RTEMS images, and boot them. I pass the U-Boot config structure
 > in R3 , to use this structure one needs a tweaked header from U-boot,
 > the structure is depended on what CPU is used, it is very simple though,
 > and should not be hard to integrate in the BSP.
 >
 > If there is any interest i can make patches for both RTEMS and U-Boot so
 > that ppl can try it before those patches get accepted by the developers
 > of U-Boot/RTEMS.

Interest for sure !
However, I'm still fighting with my mpc8245 based hardware ;-)
(using u-boot)

cheers




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