[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 08/14] tegra20: add SPL config options for tegra20 boards

Allen Martin amartin at nvidia.com
Sat Jun 9 08:30:23 CEST 2012


On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 10:19:02PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 06/08/2012 03:16 PM, Allen Martin wrote:
> > Add SPL options to tegra20 config files and enable SPL build for
> > tegra20 boards in boards.cfg
> 
> > diff --git a/include/configs/tegra20-common.h b/include/configs/tegra20-common.h
> 
> > @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@
> >  #define PHYS_SDRAM_1		TEGRA20_SDRC_CS0
> >  #define PHYS_SDRAM_1_SIZE	0x20000000	/* 512M */
> >  
> > -#define CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE	0x00108000
> > +#define CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE	0x00208000
> 
> Conceptually this change is fine, I just wonder if we need to move this
> up as far as 0x00208000; doesn't that reserve an entire MiB of space for
> the SPL, which means the U-Boot image as a whole will always grow an
> entire MiB, hence there's another MiB of data to copy from flash when
> booting? IIRC, the entire AVP+A9 U-Boot is only very roughly 256K and
> presumably the SPL is much smaller, so can we bump this define down a bit?

Good point.  Part of the problem is I use the gap between the SPL and
normal u-boot for the SPL heap and stack, but that's not really
necessary, I could move them down to before the beginning of the SPL
instead.  I'll try to tighten this up.

-Allen
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