When porting from old U-Boot the follwing steps must be taken (please complain if there's something missing here ;) - Most of the macros in include/configs/yourboard.h can be removed, espacially the CONFIG_COMMANDS section. The goal is to remove this file entirely, but for now some values are still needed here. If you think some things are better configured with the Kconfig system feel free to add them there. - The linker script needs a new section for the initcalls. The handling of the U-Boot command table has changed also (The commands are now sorted by the linker instead in runtime). To change it you need an entry like the following in your linker script: #include <asm-generic/u-boot.lds.h> __u_boot_cmd_start = .; .u_boot_cmd : { U_BOOT_CMDS } __u_boot_cmd_end = .; __u_boot_initcalls_start = .; .u_boot_initcalls : { INITCALLS } __u_boot_initcalls_end = .; - Rename your linker script to u-boot.lds.S and add the following entry to the Makefile to make sure the linker script is generated: extra-y += u-boot.lds - Register the devices present in your system in the board specific .c file. To see anything you at least have to register a console. In scb9328.c this looks like this: static struct device_d scb9328_serial_device = { .name = "imx_serial", .id = "cs0", .map_base = IMX_UART1_BASE, .size = 4096, .type = DEVICE_TYPE_CONSOLE, }; static int scb9328_console_init(void) { register_device(&scb9328_serial_device); return 0; } - For most boards you will have to register a cfi_flash device. NAND flash is not ported yet. - Call dev_add_partition() to add an environment partition for your device: dev_add_partition(&cfi_dev, 0x40000, 0x20000, "env"); This will add an area starting at 0x40000 of size 0x20000 of the device cfi_dev as env0. console_initcall(scb9328_console_init); - Port missing drivers. Depending on the driver this can a be rather simple process: Serial drivers - Declare all functions static. - register a device of type DEVICE_TYPE_CONSOLE - in your probe function fill in a struct console_device and register it with console_register() Ethernet drivers - Basically do the same as with serial drivers. - Identify the parts of the driver which handle the MAC address. There are now two fields in struct eth_device. get_mac_address() shall retrieve the MAC address from the EEPROM if one is connected. If you don't have an EEPROM just return -1. set_mac_address() shall set the MAC address in the device. All magic previously done with getenv/setenv(ethaddr) must be removed. - Add a clocksource for your system. PowerPCs have a generic decrementer counter, so if you have a PowerPC aou have nothing to do here. on ARM this is SoC dependend. See Documentation/timekeeping.txt for further information. - Adjust start.S. These files share a lot of common code, so they should be reworked in general. On Arm you have to fix CFG_MALLOC_LEN. Most start.S under cpu/arm* do a "sub r0, r0, #CFG_MALLOC_LEN". If you increase the malloc space the value CFG_MALLOC_LEN does not fit into the instruction. See cpu/arm920t/start.S how it is done. On PowerpC there is at least the Problem that the relocation offset is defined at compile time. It is easily possible to determine the address U-Boot is currently starting from at runtime and thus allowing it U-Boot to be started at any address. Look at the relocation code and replace TEXT_BASE with the following calculation of the runtime address: bl calc_source /* Calculate Source Address */ calc_source: mfspr r4, LR subi r4, r4, (calc_source - _start) subi r4, r4, 0x100 (I'm almost sure that PowerPC has a dedicated instruction for this, un- fortunately I know next to nothing of PowerPC assembler) U-Boot runs now from the address it was linked to, so on PowerPC you have to adjust TEXT_BASE to be in RAM. This makes the various fixup functions unnecessary. It also simplifies debugging because you will see the correct addresses in the objdump.