User manual

U-Boot for MPL SBC

User Manual

 2003 by MPL AG

MEH-10082-002 Rev. D

High-Tech • Made in Switzerland

1. Introduction

1.1 About this manual

This manual gives a brief introduction of the U-Boot bootloader. Since the U-Boot is an open source project which might

be updated frequently, some information may be not up to date. The purpose of this manual is to provide enough

information for using (booting) the MPL Single Board Computers. For more information please refer to the source code

and its documentation at http://u-boot.sourceforge.net/.

All hardware related information such as DIP-switch settings, connecting peripherals etc can be found in the appropriate

User Manual supplied by MPL AG or your local MPL products supplier. The User Manuals are also available on the

internet under www.mpl.ch in PDF format.

The manual is written for technical personnel responsible for integrating the MPL Single Board Computers into their

system.

1.2 Conventions

Following text conventions are used in this Manual:

Text Output from U-Boot:

U-Boot Output

Command Input:

Command Input

U-Boot Prompt:

Board name (pip405, mip405, vcma9)

BOARD

Loadaddress

LOADADDRESS

• All numbers in U-Boot commands and parameters are hexadecimal.

• The commands and parameters are case sensitive.

• Size parameters are in units. Default unit is long .l (32bit). Use modifier .b for bytes (8bit) .w for words (16Bit) see

chapter 3.2.2 Command modifiers for further information.

• The LOADADDRESS is 400000 on the PIP405 and MIP405 and 33000000 on a VCMA9