[U-Boot-Users] Some puzzles on dram_size()

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20040104064134.64840.qmail at web15209.mail.bjs.yahoo.com> you wrote:
> 
> When porting u-boot on LITE_DW,I found that the
> following code in RPXlite.c couldn't get through.I

Can you please be a  bit  more  specific?  What  does  "couldn't  get
through" mean? Bad results? Crash? Which error / crash dump messages?

> traced the code by BDI2000 and DDD and knew that the
> problem perhaps was save[32].In the "for" cycle,the
> dimension of save[] must beyond 32 limit by

THis is impossible on a 32 bit system. You definitely don't have that
much RAM on your box.

> [maxsize/sizeof(long)]/2.I changed save[] dimension to
> big enough but still in vain.I don't know
> why.Finally,I masked the following code and booted

How big is your SDRAM_MAX_SIZE #defined? And how big is your actual RAM?

> successfully.How does the following code work
> normally?If I masked the code,is there any potential
> danger? 

The code works fine on all systems I know. If you remove it, you lose
the feature that U-0Boot automatically adjusts  itself  to  different
RAM sizes.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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