[U-Boot-Users] Question about CFG_ENV_ADDR during RAMBOOT

Ladislav Michl ladis at linux-mips.org
Wed May 30 12:52:56 CEST 2007


On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 08:57:50AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <465CC968.6090801 at atmel.com> you wrote:
> > The dataflash partitioning scheme is static, which is a disadvantage, but
> > If I fix anything, I probably make the partition sizes a configurable item
> > in my buildroot and generate the warning there, if the kernel size is non compliant.
> 
> If you fix anything, then please by making  it  compatible  with  the
> poublic  U-Boot  source  tree,i. e. by using the mtdparts command for
> this purpose.

Here it might be usefull to avoid modifications of certain partition
sizes. For example partition containing environment shouldn't be
modified, because code which read it from U-Boot has size and offset
hardcoded, therefore modifying it will result to bad surprise...

Best regards,
	ladis




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