[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] iMX31: Add support to copy NAND Flash code to RAM

Alan Carvalho de Assis acassis at gmail.com
Fri Oct 24 12:52:51 CEST 2008


Hi Guennadi,

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Guennadi Liakhovetski <lg at denx.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Magnus Lilja wrote:
>
>> Where can one find developer documentation for nand_spl?
>
> doc/README.nand-boot-ppc440
>
>> Also, is there any ARM board supporting this already?
>
> nand_spl/board/samsung/smdk6400/
>
>> The nand_spl for the i.MX31 has to fit within 2048 bytes, along with
>> some of the usual low_levelinit.S stuff.
>
> src/u-boot$ ls -l nand_spl/u-boot-spl.bin
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 ***** ***** 2840 2008-10-23 09:22 nand_spl/u-boot-spl.bin
>
> So, you "just" need to reduce it by about 30%:-)
>
> Also, for anyone implementing a new nand_spl board, please, change the
> SPL-image name from nand_spl/u-boot-spl-16k.bin to something more
> flexible:-)
>

Thank you very much! I found your explanation very useful.
Sorry about my mistake. Really is better get the right implementation
integrated at first than apply other patch to remove the wrong
implementation and add the new one.

I am going to implement it on nand_spl.

> Thanks

Thank you very much,

> Guennadi
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Alan


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