David Hawkins wrote: >> Arrr, my insanity. Wolfgang is correct, of course. >> > > Gee, and I was just going to ask why on earth you liked > high-boot :) > > I've seen one novel use of high-boot that could make it > useful if you're lazy and can't be bothered plugging in > your debugger ;)
Or the hardware weenies have it in a different building. > Assuming your board has a toggle switch that sets the > state of BMS in the RCW (as most Freescale boards do), > you can put a 'good' version of U-Boot at say the > high-boot location, and the test version at the low-boot. > If the low-boot version doesn't boot, power-down, flip the > BMS toggle switch, power-up and boot-high, reflash to > the next low-boot test version, and continue. > > I personally haven't tried the trick, but it sounded > like a nice idea. That works great. It saved my a$$ there more than once. :-/ (The Freescale eval boards generally support this - very handy.) > Low-boot is the only sane method for booting, since > high-boot sticks the bootloader 8MB into your 32MB/64MB/etc > Flash ... I mean who uses 8MB Flash these days ... :) > > Cheers, > Dave Best regards, gvb ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
