After several heart-struck failure, I got one workable way to program each other in FLASH between PlanetCore and U-Boot. Hardware Platform : RPXlite DW(EP 823 H1 DW) 1. From U-Boot to PlanetCore Utilities : PlanetCore Boot Loader - PCL200.mot [root@sam tftpboot]# ppc_8xx-objcopy -O ppcboot PCL200.mot pcl200.bin [Target Operation] u-boot>t 100000 pcl200.bin u-boot>go 0x100000 ## Starting application at 0x00100000 ... MPC8xx PlanetCore Flash Burner v2.00 Copyright 2001 Embedded Planet. All rights reserved. Construct Flash Device.....done. Program MPC8xx PlanetCore Boot Loader v2.00 Built Sep 19, 2001 at 14:34:42 Image located from FC000000 to FC01B5D1. (Skipping an image, only loading low boot image) Low boot board detected, skipping high boot image. Erasing, programming and verifying will start in 20 seconds Press P to start immediately or ESC to cancel Press Space or Enter for more options. .............. Erasing Programming FLASH programmed successfully! Press R to induce a hard reset MPC8xx PlanetCore Boot Loader v2.00 Copyright 2001 Embedded Planet. All rights reserved. DRAM available size = 64 MB wvCV DRAM OK > 2. From PlanetCore to U-Boot Utilities : PlanetCore FLASH Burner - PCB200.mot Use Flash Burner to finish the work: First, TFTP the U-Boot image file to RAM; For example, RPXlite_DW.bin to 0x400000 Second, TFTP FLASH Burner to RAM; For example, 0x100000 Third, run the FLASH Burner and Program the U-Boot image into the correct location in FLASH. [Target Operation] MPC8xx PlanetCore Boot Loader v2.00 Copyright 2001 Embedded Planet. All rights reserved. DRAM available size = 64 MB wvCV DRAM OK >t Load using tftp via Ethernet Enter server IP address <172.16.115.6> : Enter server filename : RPXlite_DW.bin Enter (B)inary or (S)record input mode : B Enter address offset : <00400000 hex> : Total bytes = 120096 in 232184 uSecs Loaded addresses 00400000 through 0041D51F. Start address = 00400000 >t Load using tftp via Ethernet Enter server IP address <172.16.115.6> : Enter server filename : PCB200.mot Enter (B)inary or (S)record input mode : S Enter address offset : <00000000 hex> : .512.1024..2048....4096..... Total bytes = 326280 in 2570249 uSecs Loaded addresses 00100000 through 0011BB51. Start address = 00100000 >go [Go 00100000] MPC8xx PlanetCore Flash Burner v2.00 Copyright 2001 Embedded Planet. All rights reserved. Construct Flash Device.....done. Bad start address Start = 0xFFFFFFFF, target = 0xFFFFFFFF, length = 0xFFFFFFFF Forcing Menu Interface h[elp] Show commands. c[ode] Show information on code to be loaded. di[splay] Display all flash sections. du[mp] Dump memory. d ? for more info. e[rase] Erase flash sections. f[ill] Fill flash sections. im[age] Toggle load high, low, or both flash images. in[fo] Show flash information. ma[p] Show memory map. mo[dify] Modify memory. m ? for more info. p[rogram] Erase, program, and verify now. reset Restart the loader. s[how] Show flash sections to erase and program. t[est] Test flash sections. q[uit] Quit without programming. #program 400000 ff000000 1D51F doProgram( 400000 ff000000 1D51F ) Start = 0x00400000, target = 0xFF000000, length = 0x0001D51F Erasing sector 0xFF000000, length 0x008000. Erasing sector 0xFF008000, length 0x008000. Erasing sector 0xFF010000, length 0x008000. Erasing sector 0xFF018000, length 0x008000. Programming FF000000 through FF01D51E FLASH programmed successfully! Press R to induce a hard reset Forcing Hard Reset by MachineCheck and ResetOnCheckstop... U-Boot 1.1.2 (Aug 29 2004 - 15:11:27) CPU: PPC823EZTnnB2 at 48 MHz: 16 kB I-Cache 8 kB D-Cache Board: RPXlite_DW DRAM: 64 MB FLASH: 16 MB *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: SCC ETHERNET u-boot> ------------------------------------------------- Well, sometimes network function of PlanetCore couldn't work when switching from U-Boot to PlanetCore. For example, you couldn't download a file from HOST PC via TFTP. Don't worry, just restart your HOST PC and everything would work as smooth as clockwork. I don't know the reason WHY:-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ===== Best regards, Sam