Hi Andy, On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Andy Green <a...@warmcat.com> wrote:
> On 02/08/11 10:25, Somebody in the thread at some point said: > >> andy, why don't you send this series to the xloader ML instead? is that >> supposed to be taken upstream or in a linaro version of xloader? >> > > Hi Nicolas - > > Well, from an outside perspective xloader is a bit difficult to find out > how to interact with, I did not succeed to find out about any xloader > mailing list (what are the coordinates of it?) > yep I agree this is messy... but that's also why Anand G. from TI started an initiative to create a 'real' xloader mainline. see http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard/browse_thread/thread/ced687ea9f1d072a?pli=1 . i think linaro and ubuntu will use this as their upstream for 11.04 and 11.05. nicolas > > Here is the summary of my efforts to find xloader's home last night: > > Its upstream appears to be here > > https://gforge.ti.com/gf/project/bootloader/wiki/?pagename=X-Loader > > but the latest stuff in the download link there is labelled > "MLO-zoom2.v1.1" seemingly from 2009, and the version on my SD Card now > reports > > Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.41 (Oct 6 2010 - 17:27:48) > > Going here in case linaro forked it > > http://git.linaro.org/gitweb > > and searching for xloader x-loader MLO is dry. > > I learn though that xloader sources are a sort of parasite on U-Boot > sources. So looking here and searching for xloader > > http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=boot/u-boot-linaro-next.git;a=summary > > there are grep hits on X-loader xloader and MLO but they appear unrelated. > > http://pixhawk.ethz.ch/wiki/tutorials/omap/replace_xloader > > points to angstrom to get a binary with no sources in sight. > > Beagleboard forked it, although the fork seems Omap-3 specific from the > name > > http://gitorious.org/x-load-omap3 > > it does have Panda support. > > I looked inside the hwpack tarball to see if I could get a clue under which > name to find the sources, there is no separate Panda u-boot or X-loader > package although u-boot-tools and uboot-mkimage are there. > > I used dpkg -c to look in each .deb in the hwpack, but none contain a file > called MLO which is the name of X-loader on the SD Card. > > In the end I found > > http://gitorious.org/x-loader > > which had the advantage of working when I built it and yielding 1.44 > version, so I cc'd the guy running that in the patches. > > -Andy >
_______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
