[U-Boot-Users] How to Handel Non-Continuous Memory Regions

Ricardo ricardo.ribalda at gmail.com
Thu Jul 24 17:50:09 CEST 2008


Hi Stuart

I don't know waht architechture that you are using, but if you have an
mmu maybe you can set it to have a virtual memory space contigous.

     Best regards

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Stuart Wood
<stuart.wood at labxtechnologies.com> wrote:
> I've got an interesting problem. If loading a large image to memory
> and then copying it to flash it gets corrupted.
> It appears to happen when the image size becomes larger then a bank of
> SDRAM. I've got a 32 MByte SDRAM
> that appears as 4 banks of 8 MBytes.
>
> The system is using u-boot 1.1.3 and we will move to 1.3.3 soon.
> The memory regions are broken up like this.
>
> 0xE0000000 - 0xE07FFFFF
> 0xE1000000 - 0xE17FFFFF
> 0xE4000000 - 0xE47FFFFF
> 0xE5000000 - 0xE57FFFFF
>
> The processor is a Cirrus Logic EP9302 ARM920T.
>
> What would the most appropriate way of handling files larger than 8MBytes?
>
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