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Date:   Mon, 14 May 2018 21:41:52 -0400
From:   Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To:     Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
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Subject: Re: [J-core] [PATCH v5 00/22] sh: LANDISK and R2Dplus convert to
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On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 10:40:34AM +0900, Yoshinori Sato wrote:
> On Thu, 03 May 2018 19:07:38 +0900,
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > 
> > [1  <text/plain; utf-8 (7bit)>]
> > Hi Rich!
> > 
> > On 05/03/2018 04:33 AM, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > I found the U-Boot stuff here:
> > > 
> > > https://ja.osdn.net/users/ysato/pf/uboot/wiki/FrontPage
> > > 
> > > but I'm not sure how to install it yet. Will try to figure it out.
> > 
> > Interesting. It seems the HDL-160U uses u-boot instead of lilo which
> > is used on my USL-5P. Both are based on the LANDISK platform though.
> > I wonder whether it is possible to convert the USL-5P to use u-boot
> > instead of the very limited lilo.
> > 
> > As for the kernel configuration, for USL-5P, I had to use the kernel
> > configuration attached to this mail. One important configuration setting
> > is CONFIG_SH_PCLK_FREQ which has to be set to "33250000" otherwise
> > the kernel won't boot properly.
> > 
> > I still have my USL-5P ready to be set up for testing a new kernel
> > image with the device tree patches merged. Although I still don't
> > know how to enable the internal (pseudo) IDE controller.
> > 
> > @Yoshinori:
> > 
> > Did the HDL-160U LANDISK device you have use u-boot by default or
> > did you convert it from lilo?
> 
> Yes.
> Replace sh-lilo's second stage with u-boot.
> With this method it is unnecessary to rewrite Flash for boot.

Can you give me a brief explanation of how to reproduce the bootloader
installation? For now I'm just using the existing MBR/partitioning you
sent me, and replacing zImage.itb in /boot makes it attempt to load a
new kernel, but I haven't gotten any output yet to know if it's
working.

Probably the most important thing I'm missing right now is what the
its file for generating the zImage.itb should look like. I tried
making one myself but it may be wrong. I'm also unsure whether I
should use a zImage or vmlinux file as input, and if using a zImage
file, what load address I should choose.

For now I'm using the upstream landisk board support (maybe not
working, we'll see). Once I can confirm I'm getting some output and
the kernel seems minimally functional, I'm going to switch to DT, but
integrating the DT stuff with u-boot isn't important right away since
I can start with a linked-in DT.

At some point I'd also like to know how to reinstall u-boot on the MBR
or whatever.

Rich