[U-Boot] Size of external u-boot commands

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Thu Mar 26 16:21:14 CET 2009


On Thursday 26 March 2009 09:47:08 Jon Smirl wrote:
> My networking hardware needs microcode loaded into it before it will
> function. What's the best method to load this code? It's 70KB.

can the microcode access external memory (i.e. where u-boot lives) ?  iirc, 
the external functions are not linked statically into "u-boot applications".  
the application uses function pointers that get relocated to point to u-boot 
in external memory.
-mike
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