ARM Boot Projects

ARMboot is an Open-Source firmware suite for ARM based platforms. ARMboot is heavily based on the sister-project PPCboot, which provides similar functionality on PowerPC based systems. ARMboot shall be a common, easy-to-use and easy-to-port boot platform

Overview

ARMboot 1.1.1

ARMboot is a firmware monitor/bootloader for embedded systems based on ARM or StrongARM CPUs. The primary objectives for this software is to be easily porTABLE to new platforms while being as powerful as possible. To date it is the only GPL'ed ARM firmware capable of supporting multiple types of flash memory, network download via bootp, dhcp, tftp, PCMCIA CF booting and more. ARMboot is heavily based on the sister project PPCboot. It is planned, to move both projects even close together to increase their robustness and mutual benefit.

Getting ARMboot	ARMboot 1.1.1
ARMboot is hosted on Sourceforge: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/armboot Please also refer to navigations on the left. The latest version can always be obtained via the anonymous CVS access of Sourceforge. Tarballs are released sporadically, and can be downloaded from the same site.

Features / Supported Hardware	ARMboot 1.1.1
Ports are available for the following platforms: StrongARM - LART, SSV DNP1110, Shannon (Tuxscreen) ARM720T - implementaA7, CLEP7312 PXA250 - Lubbock, Cradle Supported Hardware Board Configuration Notes LART SSV DNP1110 Shannon implementa impA7 CLEP7312 S3C2400X SDMK2410X EPXA1DB Cradle Lubbock lart_config dnp1110_config shannon_config impa7_config ep7312_config samsung_config sdmk2410_config epxa1db_config cradle_config lubbock_config "Linux ARM Radio Terminal" SSV DilNET PC (with flash support) Tuxscreen (with support for IrDA keyboard, LCD screen) EP7211 based Cirrus Logic EP7312 Dev. Board Samsung S3C2400X Samsung SMDK2410X Eval Board Altera EPXA1 Development Board HHP PXA250 Infrared to Ethernet router Intel PXA250 Development Platform

Building ARMboot	ARMboot 1.1.1
The following informations are also included as README when downloading the TGZ. To configure and build ARMboot you will need a GNU cross development tool-chain configured for arm-linux. You should NOT need any linux header files. If so, please report this on the mailing list. The cross development tools usually have a target specific prefix. For instance, your cross compiler may be called "arm-linux-gcc" or "arm_armv4-gcc". This prefix can be passed to the Makefile by setting the CROSS_COMPILE variable, which defaults to "arm-linux-". The following example is for the "LART" board: 1. Configure sh# make lart_config rm -f include/config.h include/config.mk Configuring for lart Board... 2. Build sh# make all ... arm_armv4-objcopy -O srec armboot armboot.srec arm_armv4-objcopy -O binary armboot armboot.bin