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

[Zhang, Chris (Ex CH01)]

Thanks Larsen, 

So the . = 0x0000 0000 in the ld script file is a relative address. Is it
right?

Regards,
zl


-----Original Message-----
From: Anders Larsen [mailto:alarsen at rea.de] 
Sent: 2005 10 13 19:44
To: Zhang, Chris (Ex CH01)
Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net; wd at denx.de
Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Question on pre-loader to U-Boot

"Zhang, Chris (Ex CH01)" <Chris.Zhang at honeywell.com> schreibt:
>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.

$ cat board/at91rm9200dk/config.mk
TEXT_BASE = 0x21f00000

Cheers
 Anders