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Altera_Forum
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21 years agoHow to porting u-boot to my own board?
Hello, everyone I want to use u-boot on my board. I have two questions. 1. Before I use u-boot on my board, I just try to compile u-boot first. So, I follow the readme file. I use ...
Altera_Forum
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20 years agoHi Scott,
Now I am well-known about u-boot start-up from epcs device. <1> FPGA is configured with config data in epcs first. <2> Then, boot_loader_epcs.srec stored in epcs runs in FPGA on-chip rom and copy u-boot to the u-boot TEXT_BASE(elf link address). <3> Finally, u-boot runs in TEXT_BASE(here is in sdram 0x017C_0000, the last 256KB. My sdram is 8M, base=0x0100_0000), generate the environment(heap, global data, stack) and initial hardware for use. Right? My timer, epcs, led, uart and sysid are initialized ok, now. Next, I 'll try to make my flash work. LiangYi