Adding Patches to U-boot

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Hi all.,

          I m newbie to linux and u-boot(boot loader). I want to add
patches to u-boot to particular arch and i dont know where to get the
patches, i was able to find the patch but dont have of idea of
downloading and how to add the same to u-boot.. kindly help out from
this ..

Thanks and Regards
Fasil

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Fasil @ paradigm shift wrote:

Hi all.,

          I m newbie to linux and u-boot(boot loader). I want to add
patches to u-boot to particular arch and i dont know where to get the
patches, i was able to find the patch but dont have of idea of
downloading and how to add the same to u-boot.. kindly help out from
this ..

First, you need recent u-boot (git) development tree. How to get it:

http://wiki.davincidsp.com/index.php?title=Linux_Toolchain#Get_recent_open_source_U-Boot

(the page is for DaVinci, but it mainly applies to BeagleBoard as well)

Then apply the BeagleBoard specific patches (which are not yet integrated in above u-boot development tree):

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard#Patches (U-Boot section)

Once you downloaded patch1.diff.txt to patch4.diff.txt, apply (patch) above u-boot development tree with

patch -p1 < patch1.diff.txt
patch -p1 < patch2.diff.txt
patch -p1 < patch3.diff.txt
patch -p1 < patch4.diff.txt

See e.g.

http://wiki.davincidsp.com/index.php?title=Working_with_Linux_patches#Applying_a_patch

for more patch details.

Then, you should be able to build patched u-boot for BeagleBoard with

make distclean
make omap3530beagle_config
make

Best regards

Dirk