Did you look where the reset vector points?
      From: Bharath R <[email protected]>
 To: BeagleBoard <[email protected]> 
 Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2015 1:09 PM
 Subject: [beagleboard] why uboot copying itself to RAM
   
Hi,

As per my knowledge, MLO(SPL) does basic operation like clock configuration, 
initialization of external eMMC, ext RAM and copy the u-boot image from eMMC to 
RAM(DDR3) and jumps to RAM locate where it has copied the u-boot.
But the u-boot startup code seems to mislead me.

Here is the code of u-boot start.S:

#ifndef CONFIG_SKIP_RELOCATE_UBOOT
relocate:                               /* relocate U-Boot to RAM           */
        adr     r0, _start              /* r0 <- current position of code   */
        ldr     r1, _TEXT_BASE          /* test if we run from flash or RAM */
        cmp     r0, r1                  /* don't reloc during debug         */
        beq     stack_setup

        ldr     r2, _armboot_start
        ldr     r3, _bss_start
        sub     r2, r3, r2              /* r2 <- size of armboot            */
        add     r2, r0, r2              /* r2 <- source end address         */

copy_loop:
        ldmia   r0!, {r3-r10}           /* copy from source address [r0]    */
        stmia   r1!, {r3-r10}           /* copy to   target address [r1]    */
        cmp     r0, r2                  /* until source end addreee [r2]    */
        ble     copy_loop
#endif  /* CONFIG_SKIP_RELOCATE_UBOOT */

why is u-boot's start.S copying itself to ext RAM(DDR3)?

Regards,
Bharath
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