[U-Boot] [RFC] arm926ejs: fix jump to RAM nand_boot
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Mon Nov 1 21:19:09 CET 2010
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 06:44:41 +1100
Graeme Russ <graeme.russ at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, what a terrible waste!
>
> Why does u-boot-spl need to relocate?
Because it is typically initially loaded into a special hardware
buffer. That buffer needs to be freed up to be used to load the
payload.
> Can't u-boot-spl load AND relocate u-boot, or does u-boot-spl have
> tight space constraints?
It has tight space constraints -- often 4 KiB, sometimes even less IIRC.
-Scott
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