From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert ARIBAUD Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:48:42 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] BSS footprint of FAT very high - SPL issues In-Reply-To: References: <4D4798E2.3050500@ti.com> <4D47C3C0.7060806@ti.com> <20110201100524.E4CE5B187@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <4D47E50A.3050004@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Le 01/02/2011 11:18, Bedia, Vaibhav a ?crit : > On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 3:35 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >> Dear "Bedia, Vaibhav", >> >> In message >> you >> wrote: >>> >>>> Luckily we don't need networking related code in SPL. >>> >>> It might be required later on :) >> >> It makes no sense. Load and start U-Boot if you need more fancy >> features. If you need even more complex ones (say, TCP/IP and Java >> support) then boot and OS. >> > > I was thinking of a scenario where we have SPL being loaded over > ethernet and the SPL stage then trying to load the 2nd stage using > TFTP. That would be way outside of how U-Boot is supposed to work: the assumption is that the SPL and U-Boot itself are present on-board anyway -- the rationale being that the board should be able to get to the U-Boot prompt with only the console attached. > Regards, > Vaibhav Amicalement, -- Albert.