Beaglebone Clone

Hi Pro,

I am Beaglebone fan and I am trying to clone a board from Beaglebone white(A6A). I have some questions need your help:
1). From schematic, CAT24C256W (U7) is to store variable & mac memory, do I need to write codes to this EEPROM in u-boot? Can I just download u-boot.img from Beaglebone white from bealgebone.org?
2). From schematic, FT2232LQFN64(U12) AND USB2412_QFN28(U11) are used to connect USB0, JTAG and UART0 to PC. My thought is: connect UART0 directly to COM port on Computer, use USB0 as a seperate USB Port, delete JTAG port. Is this design all right if I just want to boot into Linux?

Thank you very much.
Sway

Refer to my answer that I posted to on that other site.

Gerald