[U-Boot-Users] Relocatable U-Boot

[Ulf Samuelsson]

> 
> A handful of projects I have worked on use multiple copies of u-boot
> stored in different locations of flash and a small assembly stub
> determines which to boot.  Currently, to do that u-boot has to be
> compiled two different times with different settings to accommodate
> the different base addresses.
> 
> Is there a way to use a single build of u-boot which can be placed at
> two different addresses in flash?  That seems to me that it would be a
> useful general feature.

If you copy your U-Boot to RAM, you can have multiple U-Boots
each linked to the same location.
You need a small utility which runs before U-Boot which
determines which version to use.

> 
> josh
> 


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Best Regards,
Ulf Samuelsson
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