[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot and Nand Flash

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <200409230855.06826.maillist at fsforth.de> you wrote:
> 
> > U-Boot will NOT fit into a 16 kB block. And U-Boot cannot be made  to
> > boot  directly  from  such  a  block.  You  will  need to implement a
> > different loader.
> 
> Sorry to disagree. Of course U-Boot at whole will not fit into a NAND block. 
> But you can place all the assembler initialization stuff including NAND 
> relocation into the first block. The relocation code then reads the remaining 
> NAND sectors and appends it to the one already read by the CPU. For the 
> S3C2410 I did post a patch half a year ago.

What you describe is exactly such a different bootstap loader.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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