[U-Boot-Users] Altera Stratix II

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <ffc2b1d40802291156o65bd167el8586288c5c07df3b at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> As part of my current ongoing effort to get up to date with rc2 I will
> produce a patch that will apply cleanly against that in a few a days.

In a few days we will have at least -rc3, if not 1.3.2.

> Flash memory size.
> On all the versions till now I have cheated U-boot to believe I have a
> 16M flash though the real flash was of sizes 32,64,128,256, and 512.
> This suited my goals very nicely because i could have a generic binary
> u-boot image for all my products. As cfi_flash.c grew up it started

I cannot understand why this should be necessary. we've  always  been
using the same U-Boot image no matter what the flash or RAM size was.
Actually  this  is  a  major  design  philosophy  of  U-Boot *not* to
hardcode memory sizes butto  automatically  deal  with  te  sizes  it
actually finds on the board.

> Currently I am adopting RC2 and is having trouble making u-boot do
> What I want (and not the other way around).

I think what you're trying to do is fundamentally broken.  Why  don't
you  use  the  real sizes present on the hardware? Why do you want to
lie to yourself and to your users?


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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