[U-Boot] (imp) uboot image size

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Jul 14 22:59:15 CEST 2010


Dear Albert ARIBAUD,

In message <4C3E20A3.1020600 at free.fr> you wrote:
>
> > Eventually your processor (which you do not care to mention) has it's
> > reset entry point at the end of the physical addess space, so this
> > will always be included in theimage - the further you move TEXT_BASE
> > down, the bigger your image will be.
>
> Uhm... At least for edminiv2 (and I assume, for other orion5x-based
> boards as well) changing TEXT_BASE in the board's config.mk does not
> change the size of the u-boot image; it just changes the RAM address at
> which it shall relocate and run.

I think I am aware of this :-)

Actually this is the very reason why I am pretty sure that the OP is on
a PPC box with the reset vector at 0xFFFFFFFC being part of the image.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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