uboot version? wiki not accurate

Fox Mulder Quakeman1 at gmx.net
Thu Oct 23 10:41:35 CEST 2008


Helmut Tessarek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm still using my original uboot version and I think it is time to upgrade.
> Unfortunately the wiki seems not to be accurate, because it states the following:
> 
> The latest bootloader binary builds can be found under
> http://downloads.openmoko.org/daily/ .
> 
> All versions of the GTA02 (Neo FreeRunner) that have been sold to the public are
> version 5 hardware, so look for a file with "gta02" and "v5" in the name, for
> example: uboot-gta02v5-latest.bin
> 
> This is the listing of the above link:
> 
> [   ] dfu-util                                22-Oct-2008 01:31  579K
> [   ] gta01bv4-lowlevel.bin                   22-Oct-2008 01:31  280
> [   ] gta01bv4-u-boot.bin                     22-Oct-2008 01:31  214K
> [   ] gta02v5_and_up-lowlevel.bin             22-Oct-2008 01:31  308
> [   ] gta02v5_and_up-u-boot.bin               22-Oct-2008 01:31  211K
> [   ] testing-om-gta01-20081021.rootfs.jffs2  22-Oct-2008 01:31   34M
> [   ] testing-om-gta01-20081021.rootfs.tar.gz 22-Oct-2008 01:31   28M
> [   ] testing-om-gta01-20081022.uImage.bin    22-Oct-2008 01:31  1.7M
> [   ] testing-om-gta02-20081021.rootfs.jffs2  22-Oct-2008 01:31   41M
> [   ] testing-om-gta02-20081021.rootfs.tar.gz 22-Oct-2008 01:31   30M
> [   ] testing-om-gta02-20081022.uImage.bin    22-Oct-2008 01:31  1.7M
> 
> I assume that gta02v5_and_up-u-boot.bin is the correct image, but how can I be sure?
> Furthermore, what is gta02v5_and_up-lowlevel.bin?
> Is there a stable version of uboot, or are there only daily builds available?

The only thing i can say is that gta02v5_and_up-u-boot.bin is the actual
u-boot firmware. I used this to reflash my u-boot for several times. I
don't know what the lowlevel file is for and i never used it up to now.

Ciao,
      Rainer




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