[U-Boot-Users] Dynamic location of the environment sector

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20060621104820.GA23461 at inaccessnetworks.com> you wrote:
>
> Indeed it does not. The problem however, just for the record is code
> like the following segment:
> 
> # if (CFG_ENV_ADDR >= CFG_MONITOR_BASE) && \
>      (CFG_ENV_ADDR+CFG_ENV_SIZE) <= (CFG_MONITOR_BASE + CFG_MONITOR_LEN)
> #  define ENV_IS_EMBEDDED       1
> # endif

This is not a real problem, me thinks.

> The preprocessor cannot obviously perform checks and do arithmetic with
> C variables and constructs:
> 
> include/environment.h:64:20: token "[" is not validin preprocessor expressions

Well, don't use '[' in your definitions, then :-)

> This is the solution I will follow, although I was trying to avoid it.
> The second block, right after the u-boot will hold the environment. I
> have an issue though with the environment sector size. I have three
> configurations, two of which have a sector size 0x40000 and one has
> 0x20000. The problem I mentioned above with the static declarations
> appears here. If I declare the env size to be the smaller sector, An
> error occurs during the environment saving : "flash sector size is not
> equal to the environment size" or something like that.

So don'ty do it, then. Make the size 0x40000.

> Another note not related to the ones above. A couple of days ago I sent
> some patches for the arm architecture, but I did not received any
> replies. Have you seen them (it was on the 6th of June)?

Did you see them on the list? If so, OK. 
What sort of replies did you expect anyway? 

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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