Upgrading u-boot needed ?

Edgar D' Souza edgar.b.dsouza at gmail.com
Thu Aug 7 06:48:19 CEST 2008


On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Mikael Berthe
<mikael.berthe at lilotux.net> wrote:
>
> * Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox at gmail.com> [2008-08-04 23:55 +0200]:
> >
> > FWIW, I learned (from the community list I believe) som time ago that
> > you can use 'grep  Bootloader /dev/mtdblock0' from a shell on the
> > FreeRunner (and possibly the 1973 as well) to get the u-boot version.
> > Like this:
> >
> > root at om-gta02:~# grep  Bootloader /dev/mtdblock0
> > Neo1973 Bootloader U-Boot 1.3.2-moko12
>
> That's NOR u-boot version, and you can get NAND's with mtdblock1:
>
> root at om-gta02:~# grep Bootloader /dev/mtdblock1
> Neo1973 Bootloader U-Boot 1.3.2+gitr18+64eb10cab8055084ae25ea4e73b66dd03cc1a0cb
>
> ...which can be useful to check after an upgrade.

Thanks to both! Added this useful info to
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Flashing_the_Neo_FreeRunner under the
heading Flashing the boot loader to the NAND.
Regards
Ed.




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