[U-Boot-Users] PPC405GP - uboot - can't get past stackloop

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <EGEGIJHKDKJGAJMGIDPNMEAHCEAA.jwalden at digitalatlantic.com> you wrote:
> Yes - you are absolutly correct.

Been there myself often enough before ;-)

> Somewhere after about 1000 iterations of placing 0xdeaddead into what is
> supposed to be the temporary stack frame, I get a machine exception.
> 
> So - now I know my memory is not configured correctly.  My hardware guy is

Probably not your _memory_.

> not
> here, however I see that he has defined 64MB starting at 0x70000000.

Ignore that. RAM should always start at 0x0000.

> However if
> I change the value in my config file (CFG_INIT_RAM_ADDR) from 0x4000000 to
> 0x7000000

Be careful! The initial memory is NOT in  RAM!!!  It  used  the  data
cache  or OCM - don't know the design of your board. If in doubt, use
the data cache.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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