[U-Boot] Support for Calao USB A9263 board based on AT91SAM9263 CPU

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Jul 20 23:11:42 CEST 2009


Dear Thomas Petazzoni,

In message <20090720174220.1800dcaa at surf> you wrote:
>
> > Any specific reason for not using autosizing and testing via
> > get_ram_size() ?
> 
> The initial reason is that the code for this board is taken from the
> Atmel boards code, which doesn't use get_ram_size(). However, my board
> has a fixed RAM size, so in that case, is it still useful to use
> get_ram_size() ?

Yes, it is still useful, as it will for example  detect  most  memory
errors and as such broken (or dying) hardware.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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