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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] (imp) uboot image size
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:53:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100714205340.539AA160691@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C3E135B.7040403@free.fr>

Dear Albert ARIBAUD,

In message <4C3E135B.7040403@free.fr> you wrote:
>
> Even if your "golden", uboot1 and uboot2 bootloaders are all full-blown
> u-boots, you still don't need to change their TEXT_BASE: just make sur
> uboot{1,2} have CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT defined, and that "golden"

Be careful.

CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT is an ARM specific thing, and I am almost
sure that Sagar is on a PowerPC systems.

> either go'es to their Flash entry point or copies them from Flash to
> somewhere free in RAM then go'es there: in any case, they will relocate
> themselves over "golden" -- this overloading works, I use it routinely
> on my ED Mini V2.

Be careful again. Do you really mean "relocate" here? And
"overloading" a running image is definitely NOT a safe operation.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-14 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-13 18:38 [U-Boot] (imp) uboot image size Sagar Heroorkar
2010-07-13 18:46 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-07-14  6:10 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-07-14 19:10   ` Sagar Heroorkar
     [not found]     ` <4C3E0E3D.7060305@free.fr>
2010-07-14 19:25       ` Sagar Heroorkar
2010-07-14 19:43         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-07-14 20:53           ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
     [not found]             ` <4C3E2808.5040509@free.fr>
     [not found]               ` <20100714214943.4BFB6160691@gemini.denx.de>
2010-07-14 22:35                 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-07-14 22:37                   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-07-15 14:38                     ` Sagar Heroorkar
2010-07-14 20:37         ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-07-14 20:29     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-07-14 20:40       ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-07-14 20:59         ` Wolfgang Denk

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