[U-Boot] [PATCH 10/31] 8xx, mgsuvd: size and position of environment corrected

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Jan 28 13:04:24 CET 2009


Dear Heiko Schocher,

In message <498027CE.6080100 at denx.de> you wrote:
> adapted the position and size of the environment
> sector to match the defines in mgcoge, kmeter1
> and make them dependant of the MONITOR_LEN
> instead of an absolute address
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Herzmann <thomas.herzmann at keymile.com>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
> ---
>  include/configs/mgsuvd.h |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/configs/mgsuvd.h b/include/configs/mgsuvd.h
> index 05e770e..01f5bd3 100644
> --- a/include/configs/mgsuvd.h
> +++ b/include/configs/mgsuvd.h
> @@ -126,13 +126,13 @@
>  #define CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT	500	/* Timeout for Flash Write (in ms)	*/
> 
>  #define CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH	1
> -#define CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET		0x40000 /*   Offset   of Environment Sector	*/
> -#define CONFIG_ENV_SIZE		0x08000 /* Total Size of Environment Sector	*/
> +#define CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET	CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN
> +#define CONFIG_ENV_SIZE	0x20000 /* Total Size of Environment	*/
>  #define CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE	0x20000 /* Total Size of Environment Sector	*/

Do you really need 128 kB environment storage? Note  that  this  will
slow  down  operation  a  lot  because  it  means  you always have to
checksum for that much memory. The previously used  value  of  32  kB
should be more than sufficient for all practical purposes.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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