In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply, but I have a few questions.
> The first is can U-boot load any application other than a Linux.
Of course it can. If you had read the manual, you should have found
the section about standalone applications. And of course it can boot
a couple of other operating systems as well, which, from U-Boot's
point of view, are just different applications.
> I simply want to use u-boot as a boot loader, to load a non-Linux app into
> memory and jump to that app with or without uboot's hardware init. The
If you want to avoid U-Boot's hardware init, then run your application
on the raw hardware without U-Boot. But be prepared that then you have
to reinvent all the needed hardware init steps yourself.
> second wuestion is where can I get some help in doing just that, if it's
> possible? I don't want to have to build and cross-compile my app in Linux in
> order for u-boot to load it. Third, if I have to compile my app in Linux,
> can I simply use mkimage with the hello world binary and do a bootm from
> that?
May I suggest that you just read the related sections in the manual?
It comes with a couple of examples which show exactly what you are
asking for.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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