[U-Boot-Users] Question on pre-loader to U-Boot

[Marco Cavallini]

> I am using at91rm9200dk u-boot from ATMEL.
> 
> I noticed that ATMEL uses programs called loader.bin and boot.bin to load
> U-Boot into SDRAM. The Load Address is 0x21f00000 (the upper 1M).
> 
> My question is how does this value is choosen for U-Boot? I guess it is
> related to linker behavior of U-Boot (right?), but there is no clue to
> conclude such kind of address. Thanks for any hints.

Atmel pre-loader called loader.bin uncompress a gzipped u-boot in sdram.
You can avoid using loader.bin simply switching to u-boot-1.1.2
http://www.koansoftware.com/it/art.php?art=80

best regards
Marco Cavallini
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