barebox for leopardboard

[Premi, Sanjeev]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: barebox-bounces at lists.infradead.org 
> [mailto:barebox-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of 
> Tyler W. Wilson
> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 11:29 PM
> To: barebox at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: barebox for leopardboard
> 
> On 2/5/2010 1:49 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > Hi Tyler,
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 12:25:28PM -0400, Tyler W. Wilson wrote:
> >    
> >> I am curious if anybody has done any work on getting 
> barebox running on
> >> the leopardboard, so I do not reproduce effort.
> >>
> >> I am especially interested in setting up a bootloader that directly
> >> supports USB and DFU, so that I do not need to use the 
> UART/serial port.
> >>      
> > I know nothing about the leopardboard, from googling I 
> found out that
> > this is a beagleboard with a camera connected to it, right? 
> Barebox runs
> > on the beagleboard, but unfortunately we do not have USB 
> support for it.
> > You would have to port the usb driver for it, then DFU should work.
> > As a first shot you can compile the beagleboard defconfig 
> and see how
> > far you get.
> >
> > Sascha
> >
> >    
> Unfortunately, it is a little different - it uses a DaVinci DM355 
> processor, which is an ARM9 + custom DSP. The beagleboard 
> uses an OMAP3x 
> of course. Unfortunately, even I am confused on the TI naming 
> scheme as 
> to what is an OMAP versus what is a DaVinci.
> 
> I will probably do as you suggest - start with the 
> beagleboard configs 
> and also look at the leopardboard code in the ti u-boot repo. 
> Hopefully 
> that will give me enough data to get the basic barebox running.

Tyler,

You may want to post specific queries to davinci-linux-open-source at linux.davincidsp.com

Best regards,
Sanjeev

> 
> The USB worries me, since I am just familiar enough with it 
> to know how 
> complex it can be. Time will tell.
> 
> Thank you for your input.
> 
> Tyler
> 
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