Dear "V, Aneesh", In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > 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=20 > size and size of u-boot itself, right?
That would mean that all the memory where U-Boot was located is lost for use in Linux, as we reserve these areas by adjusting the "mem=" boot argument. Allocation of such memory blocks must start at the top, ang do downwards. And U-Boot lies below that, then. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] And now remains That we find out the cause of this effect, Or rather say, the cause of this defect... -- Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
