[U-Boot] arm: pRAM support?

Holger brunck holger.brunck at keymile.com
Wed Jul 22 15:47:15 CEST 2009


Dear Wolfgang Denk, 
> Dear Heiko Schocher,
> 
> In message <4A66A86D.7070200 at denx.de> you wrote:
>> Andreas Huber wrote:
>>> We are using the pRAM feature (CONFIG_PRAM) on the PPC architecture. As
>>> we are switching to an ARM architecture (Kirkwood) I am wondering if
>>> there is an equivalent U-Boot feature for this (CONFIG_PRAM did not
>>> work).
>> As this functionality uses RAM at the end of RAM, it should be possible
>> to add this also to ARM plattforms. Jean-Christophe, Prafulla, are there
>> any objections on it?
> 
> Well, if you want to do it Right (TM) that means we would take this
> chance and fix the ARM memory map, which implies to implement
> relocation to a dynamicalle detemined relocation address.
> 
can you explain this a little bit more in detail? Sounds like, that this is a larger chunk of work? 

Best regards 
Holger Brunck 



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