Dear Trent Piepho,
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> > U-Boot should *never* assume static flash bank sizes. The whole
> > design is based on the idea to automatically determine the actual
> > size of flash and RAM that is fit on a specific board, and to
> > auto-adjust for this.
>
> The bank size here is only used for linking u-boot. The actual u-boot code is
> no different that it is now.
How is this expected to work if the flash bank size used to link the
u-boot image is different from the real flash bank size present on the
board?
> In order to boot on mpc85xx, the u-boot image must be linked to locate the
> boot page as the last page in the flash bank. There is no way to do this at
> run time, it's the boot page. All existing 85xx platforms hard code the
> location of the boot page in the u-boot image one way or another. I'm just
> changing the linker script to do it in a way where the same script will work
> on all 85xx boards.
But in the patch you submit you hard-wire certain flash bank sizes
into the linker scriopts, don't you?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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