Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Low level boot on MIPS CPUs

2012-02-07 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 06/02/2012 19:08, En/na Florian Fainelli ha escrit: Actually, I have never seen a single MIPS system out there having such a boot ROM capability. The danube has it. Bye -- Luca ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org

[OpenWrt-Devel] Low level boot on MIPS CPUs

2012-02-06 Thread jonsm...@gmail.com
Most ARM CPUs have boot ROMs for getting the initial image out of flash. I'm referring to the boot loader that loads uboot, not uboot. The ARM CPUs I've worked with search for a signature in flash, if they can't find a valid signature they load from UART instead. Or you can use a jumper to force

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Low level boot on MIPS CPUs

2012-02-06 Thread Peter Naulls
On 02/06/2012 08:52 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: Most ARM CPUs have boot ROMs for getting the initial image out of flash. I'm referring to the boot loader that loads uboot, not uboot. The ARM CPUs I've worked with search for a signature in flash, if they can't find a valid signature they load

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Low level boot on MIPS CPUs

2012-02-06 Thread Florian Fainelli
On Monday 06 February 2012 18:00:17 Peter Naulls wrote: On 02/06/2012 08:52 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: Most ARM CPUs have boot ROMs for getting the initial image out of flash. I'm referring to the boot loader that loads uboot, not uboot. The ARM CPUs I've worked with search for a

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Low level boot on MIPS CPUs

2012-02-06 Thread jonsm...@gmail.com
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Florian Fainelli flor...@openwrt.org wrote: On Monday 06 February 2012 18:00:17 Peter Naulls wrote: On 02/06/2012 08:52 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: Most ARM CPUs have boot ROMs for getting the initial image out of flash. I'm referring to the boot loader that

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Low level boot on MIPS CPUs

2012-02-06 Thread Florian Fainelli
On Monday 06 February 2012 19:20:21 jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Florian Fainelli flor...@openwrt.org wrote: On Monday 06 February 2012 18:00:17 Peter Naulls wrote: On 02/06/2012 08:52 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: Most ARM CPUs have boot ROMs for getting the