Dear Wofgang, > -----Original Message----- > From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 4:58 PM > To: V, Aneesh > Cc: Reinhard Meyer; Albert ARIBAUD; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [RFC] arm926ejs: fix jump to RAM nand_boot > > Dear "V, Aneesh", > > In message > <[email protected]> you > wrote: > > > > If the preloader loads the u-boot to the location that it is built > for > > everything should work fine once bss is initialized, right? > > There is no such thing as a "location that it is built for", as the > location in RAM may differ, depending on enabled features - for > example, pRAM size or (shared) frame buffer size may change > depending > on environment variable settings. In the result, the location of > U-Boot in RAM shifts. You cannot know the final address at build > time.
Just curious. Why don't we allocate memory for such needs below the u-boot (lower address) like we do for malloc area and stack. This way the location where u-boot is relocated will only depend on the SDRAM size and size of u-boot itself, right? Best regards, Aneesh _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
