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Old 09-26-2012, 07:07 PM   #249
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Originally Posted by ixtab View Post
(and yes, maybe avoiding u-boot altogether could be a solution. Then again, u-boot contains all the device-specific initialization that is needed to even make a Kindle come alive at all, so dropping u-boot for something custom is probably not a good idea )
I believe, kernel will initialize all supported hardware by itself. (It means hardware will be re-initialized if kernel will be booted through U-Boot.)

Only DRAM initialization is required (and one UART initialization is desirable if there is a need to look at booting log at serial console).
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