[U-Boot-Users] downsizing u-boot below 64K for arm926ejs based platforms

Prafulla Wadaskar prafulla at marvell.com
Mon Jan 7 05:33:04 CET 2008


On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 10:48 +0000, Marcel Ziswilen wrote:
> Prafulla Wadaskar <prafulla <at> marvell.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi all
> 
> Hi there
> 
Hi Marcel
Thanks for your responce,
> > Have anybody achieved u-boot size below 64K for arm0926ejs
> > based platform?
> 
> Usually das U-Boot is about double the size you're requesting and depending on
> the required features you might have a hard time getting there. A better
> approach might be to boot in several phases as e.g. done when booting from NAND.
> 
> What exactly are you trying to achieve? Why would it have to be less than 64K in
> size?
> 
We have tight size restriction, entire system needs to fit within 2MB of
flash, so I need to downsize u-boot as much as I can, What I need only
boot from NAND and tftp support.

How about removing jffs2 support and booting from raw flash? 

> Cheers
> 
> Marcel
> 
> 
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