[U-Boot-Users] New x86 board booted...now the hard part
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Tue May 27 22:08:12 CEST 2003
Dear Marc,
in message <20030527173633.GA7367 at buici.com> you wrote:
>
> > 2) If there is no such memory, you can probably lock some parts (or
> > all of) the cache and (mis-) use this as memory.
>
> This may be possible, but it seems to me to be a lot of work just so
> we can 'call' the routine that performs the SDRAM controller setup.
There is little choice. If you want to use C, you will have to stick
to the ABI, and you will have to provide a working stack. For a
stack, you need some memory.
> Then how about making this single function a configuration definition
> and fixing the lib_i386 to use that constant.
>
> include/configs/thisboard
>
> #define MEM_INIT mem_init_sc520
>
> lib-i386/board.c
>
> ...
#ifdef MEM_INIT
> MEM_INIT()
#endif
> ...
OK with me.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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