On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 09:38:55AM -0500, Peter Naulls wrote: > On 11/17/22 14:33, Petr Štetiar wrote: > > Daniel Golle <dan...@makrotopia.org> [2022-11-17 17:01:43]: > > > > Hi, > > > > > Add swig/host to build dependencies. > > > > this doesn't looks like a cleanup as commit subject suggests, but rather > > contrary :-) > > Thanks all in any case for looking at this. We have a possible need to modify > our vendor (or vendor's vendor, hard to be sure) U-Boot. On our MT7621 > boards we have vendor versions 2.0.0 aka Ralink version 2.0.0 and 1.1.3 aka > Ralink > version 4.3.0.0. And I have the Mediatek SDK with source for what claims to > be version 5.0.0.0. > > Attempts to clarify with the vendor what's going on or get exact sources > or history have proven challenging due to timezones and language barriers, > and I think they simply may not know. > > Obviously using the OpenWrt version is going to be probably more satisfactory, > although there may well be vendor changes to support MCU etc. > > It's been many many years since I did u-boot work, but is there some magic to > load u-boot image into RAM on mt7621 and run it to try it out before flashing? > I know there are configuration options for DDR and CPU frequency, etc, but > tftping the u-boot binaries variously and using 'go' result in an apparently > stopped system.
@lynxis has done this on Aarch64 MediaTek SoC just a few days ago and wrote a nice blog post summarizing the process. Probably most of it is the same on MIPS-based targets: https://lunarius.fe80.eu/blog/openwrt-u-boot-boot-u-boot.html > > This is the only meaningful documentation I have found. > > https://u-boot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/board/mediatek/mt7621.html > > Thanks! > > > _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
