[U-Boot-Users] Relocatable U-Boot
Ulf Samuelsson
ulf at atmel.com
Wed May 30 19:54:15 CEST 2007
>> > > 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.
>>
>> Hm... yes. Though I think that is more of a workaround than a truly
>> relocatable u-boot.
>
I don't think having relocatable U-Boot is a good goal.
Having the possiblility to choose between several different U-boot image is...
Copying the image to SDRAM is one method to do this.
If you don't want to copy to SDRAM, then you can
enable a MMU (when this is available) as an alternative.
Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson
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