1 File: README.COBRA5272 2 Author: Florian Schlote for Sentec elektronik (linux (a] sentec-elektronik.de) 3 Contents: This is the README of u-boot (Universal bootloader) for our 4 COBRA5272 board. 5 Version: v01.00 6 Date: Tue Mar 30 00:28:33 CEST 2004 7 License: This document is published under the GNU GPL 8 ______________________________________________________________________ 9 10 CHANGES 11 040330 v01.00 Creation 12 13 ______________________________________________________________________ 14 15 16 CONFIGURING 17 ----------- 18 19 1. Modify include/configs/cobra5272.h acc. to your prefs 20 21 2. If necessary, modify board/cobra5272/config.mk (see below) 22 23 3. 24 25 > make cobra5272_config 26 27 > make 28 29 30 Please refer to u-boot README (general info, u-boot-x-x-x/README), 31 to u-boot-x-x-x/doc/README.COBRA5272 and 32 to the comments in u-boot-x-x-x/include/configs/cobra5272.h 33 34 Configuring u-boot is done by commenting/uncommenting preprocessor defines. 35 36 Default configuration is 37 38 FLASH version (for further info see subsection below) 39 link address 0xffe00000 40 41 16 MB RAM 42 43 network enabled 44 no default IP address for target, host set, no MACaddress set 45 46 bootdelay for autoboot 5 sec. 47 autoboot disabled 48 49 50 #----------------------------------- 51 # u-boot FLASH version & RAM version 52 #----------------------------------- 53 54 The u-boot bootloader for Coldfire processors can be configured 55 56 1. as a standalone bootloader residing in flash & relocating itself to RAM on 57 startup automatically => "FLASH version" 58 59 2. as a RAM version which will not load from flash automatically as it needs a 60 prestage bootloader ("chainloading") & is running only from the RAM address it 61 is linked to => "RAM version" 62 63 This version may be very helpful when installing u-boot for the first time 64 since it can be used to make available s. th. like a "bootstrap 65 mechanism". 66 67 68 How to build the different images: 69 70 ------------------------------ 71 Flash version 72 ------------------------------ 73 74 Compile u-boot 75 76 in dir ./u-boot-x-x-x/ 77 78 please first check: 79 80 in ./include/configs/cobra5272.h 81 82 CONFIG_MONITOR_IS_IN_RAM has to be undefined, e. g. as follows: 83 84 #if 0 85 #define CONFIG_MONITOR_IS_IN_RAM 86 /* define if monitor is started from a pre-loader */ 87 #endif 88 89 => u-boot as single bootloader starting from flash 90 91 92 in board/cobra5272/config.mk CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE should be 93 94 CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE = 0xffe00000 95 96 => linking address for u-boot as single bootloader stored in flash 97 98 then: 99 100 host> make cobra5272_config 101 rm -f include/config.h include/config.mk 102 Configuring for cobra5272 board... 103 host> make 104 [...] 105 106 host> cp u-boot.bin /tftpboot/u-boot_flash.bin 107 108 109 ------------------------------ 110 RAM version 111 ------------------------------ 112 113 in dir ./u-boot-x-x-x/ 114 115 host> make distclean 116 117 please modify the settings: 118 119 in ./include/configs/cobra5272.h 120 121 CONFIG_MONITOR_IS_IN_RAM now has to be defined, e. g. as follows: 122 123 #if 1 124 #define CONFIG_MONITOR_IS_IN_RAM 125 /*define if monitor is started from a pre-loader */ 126 #endif 127 128 => u-boot as RAM version, chainloaded by another bootloader or using bdm cable 129 130 131 in board/cobra5272/config.mk CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE should be 132 133 CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE = 0x00020000 134 135 => target linking address for RAM 136 137 138 then: 139 140 host> make cobra5272_config 141 rm -f include/config.h include/config.mk 142 Configuring for cobra5272 board... 143 host> make 144 [...] 145 146 host> cp u-boot.bin /tftpboot/u-boot_ram.bin 147 148 149 ---- 150 HINT 151 ---- 152 153 If the m68k-elf-toolchain & the m68k-bdm-gdb is installed you can run the RAM 154 version by typing (in dir ./u-boot-x-x-x/) 155 "board/cobra5272/bdm/load-cobra_uboot" , 156 in ./u-boot-x-x-x/ the RAM version u-boot (elf format) has to be available. 157
