Mity CPU Platforms » MitySOM-335x (ARM Cortex-A8 Based Products)

(posted on behalf of a customer)

We would like to use a simple TI StarterWare based design possibly with SYSBIOS. I believe you mentioned you don’t have the StarterWare boot ported to this platform yet. I’m wondering if I can use the existing Linux SPL bootloader (MLO file) and use mkimage to take our binary image and transform it into a “u-boot.img” file with the appropriate header information. Do you think this is feasible?

In order for this to work, I have a few questions about the SPL boot.
Does the SPL boot initialize the SOM for full performance operation (i.e. PMIC & Arm Core for full power operation, PLLs for 720MHz, DDR for max performance, etc.)?
When the SPL is done with its initialization, does it search for a file called “u-boot.img”, load it and branch to the entry point?