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Subject: Re: ubldr on armv4/v5
From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To: Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws>
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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 08:22:33 -0600
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On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 11:49 +0200, Ronald Klop wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I read about ubldr a while ago. Would it be possible to use this on  
> armv4/5 (i.e. my sheevaplug)?
> I now copy a kernel.bin file in the nand memory. Would it work to copy  
> /boot/ubldr.bin in there? Or are more steps involved?
> 
> Regards,
> Ronald.

In theory it should work fine.  It would require that you compile a new
u-boot for the sheeva system with the CONFIG_API option enabled -- ubldr
won't run unless the u-boot API is available.

-- Ian