U-Boot 2013.07 release

Published on August 26, 2013

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Starting today, we'll begin shipping a version of U-Boot based on main-line 2013.07.

This release is fairly close to main-line U-Boot, but adds support for our Nitrogen6_Lite and other custom boards.

New features include:

Disables virtual memory before executing go. This is needed for launching Windows Embedded.
Adds the mtest (memory test) command to our configurations.
Boot scripts now blank unused frame-buffers 0-3
Changes CAS latency to address an obscure error during startup of Timesys images when no displays are connected
Fixes HDMI output through reboot. See this comment for details.

You can grab a binary package that includes support for all of our boards here:

u-boot-production.tar.gz

If you extract the content to an SD card, you can upgrade like so:

U-Boot > bootfile=u-boot.nitrogen6q ; run upgradeu

Refer to this post for more detail.