From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 17:08:52 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH][CFT] bring ARM memory layout in line with the documented behaviour In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:35:00 +0200." Message-ID: <20031206160857.A4D51C5F5F@atlas.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Anders, in message you wrote: > > here's a fairly lengthy patch against 0.4.8 that brings the memory > layout of all supported ARM CPUs in line with the documentation. > This has the positive side-effect of allowing U-Boot to actually run on > PXA CPUs (the stock PXA implementation didn't set the start-address of > the malloc pool at all!) > > The memory layout now more or less conforms to the standard as defined > in the README (the absolute addresses are board-specific, of course). > > Since the stack and malloc-heap are now located below the U-Boot code, > the TEXT_BASE of the supported ARM boards can be increased accordingly > (for most (but not all) boards, the patch already does this). Applied. Will push to CVS later this nicght. Sorry this took _that_ long. > Since I only have access to PXA-based HW, I was only able to verify > that U-Boot still *builds* for all supported ARMs; I have to rely on > your help to see if it also *runs* correctly. I verified it on TRAB. > Robert: When/if this patch is eventually applied, you can probably push > most of your PXA -ptx stuff without having it break things. Robert, please feel free to go on... Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question. -- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3