Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Sieka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Kumar, this patch pertains to your commit "[new uImage] Provide ability to
restrict region used for boot images", id d3f2fa0d -- could you review
and confirm that the documentation is OK? Thanks.

 README |   19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 5d059e7..a0dfe73 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1995,7 +1995,10 @@ Configuration Settings:
                Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
                the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
                the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, eventually
-               initrd image) must be put below this limit.
+               initrd image) must be put below this limit, unless
+               "bootm_low" enviroment variable is defined and non-zero.
+               In such case all data for the Linux kernel must be
+               between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + CFG_BOOTMAPSZ.
 
 - CFG_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
                Max number of Flash memory banks
@@ -2733,6 +2736,20 @@ Some configuration options can be set using Environment 
Variables:
 
   bootfile     - Name of the image to load with TFTP
 
+  bootm_low    - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
+                 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
+                 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
+                 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
+                 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
+                 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
+                 kernel -- see the descripton of CFG_BOOTMAPSZ.
+
+  bootm_size   - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
+                 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
+                 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
+                 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
+                 environment variable.
+
   autoload     - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
                  "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
                  configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to


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