Hi Jay,

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 08:01:55PM -0500, Jay Carlson wrote:
> > Sorry it took me a while to test your patch. I applied it to trunk
> > r33391 and can confirm, that uboot works fine on my dockstar when
> > installed as primary bootloader to flash.
> 
> It doesn't work on mine--in fact, it bricks it--but this may be a 
> documentation bug. 

I'm sorry that you have bricked your device...
 
> https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/12492
> 
> Short version: the wiki says 
> http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/seagate/dockstar
> 
> nand write.e 0x800000 0x000000 0x40000
> 
> which really does not sound right, since u-boot is 0x594c8 bytes long. What
> is the procedure for flashing the new uboot as primary, and is it intended to
> work as a secondary? 

It won't work as secondary, you must use it as primary.

This is how I flash it on my kirkwood boards:

tftpboot 0x0800000 u-boot.kwb
nand erase 0x0 0x${filesize}
nand write 0x0800000 0x0 0x${filesize}
 
> There's also both .img and .kwb files. I'm not sure what the difference is.
> (Since I've got original dockstars, I won't be serial booting the .kwb
> apparently :-)

You only need .kwb file. Do you have JTAG adapter?

Luka
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