Should I update u-boot?

Ian darkstarsword at gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 06:51:22 CEST 2008


Hi Vinc,

> I have a big favor to ask. Could someone direct me exactly to a correct
> version of u-boot that can charge a Freerunner with a dead battery? An exact
> URL with a file name would mean a lot to me. :-)

http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Om2008.8-update/gta02v5_and_up-u-boot.bin
should do the trick.

> I checked
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Flashing_the_Neo_FreeRunner#Flashing_the_boot_loader_to_the_NAND,
> and http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Download#End_user, and
> http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Om2008.8-update.
>
> Is this the file I need?
> http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Om2008.8-update/Om2008.8-gta02-20080903.uImage.bin

No, that's a kernel image packaged for uBoot.

Cheers,
-Ian

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