Hi Sayed, 2012/7/5 Andreas Bießmann <andreas.de...@googlemail.com>: > Dear sayed zahid, > > On 05.07.2012 13:42, sayed zahid wrote: >> Hi , >> I have basic knowledge of porting u-boot to a new board. But now i have got >> a task to port u-boot on cavium mips based board. As i know that mips >> architecture is already supported, but will it support all cavium octeon >> mips variants? > > I guess no. I had to work with some non mainlined version of u-boot > provided by cavium a year ago (or something around that). At that time > we got a > > ---8<--- > abiessmann@azuregos % git grep U_BOOT_VERSION include/version.h > include/version.h:#define U_BOOT_VERSION "U-Boot 1.1.1" > --->8--- > > :( > > AFAIR there was a lot of basic stuff missing in mainline U-Boot to get > Cavium mips64 running at that time so I didn't start to port these > proprietary changes (well it would not have been accepted the way it was > written down; beside that cavium forced us to sign a NDA for that piece > of GPL code). > > I have not followed their open source efforts since then, but I saw a > lot of work on the linux-mips list by David Daney and I think Aaron > Williams is working for Cavium too and is on this list. Maybe one of > them can comment? > >> Please put some light on this. I would be glad if you guys, >> give my some idea to where to start with or suggest some documents which >> will help me understand and port on a new architecture > > You should not hesitate to contact their support and ask for proper > mainline support of u-boot ;) >
AFAIK Aaron Williams is actively working on that issue. You can find some infos in the mailing list archives: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/88757/focus=88759 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/94220/focus=94229 Best regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
