[U-Boot] ARM relocation, probably trivial mistake

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Oct 1 10:03:59 CEST 2010


Dear Reinhard Meyer,

In message <4CA5821E.3070108 at emk-elektronik.de> you wrote:
> 
> I think it would be safe that a preloader loads u-boot to the very
> bottom of SDRAM. If the SDRAM is not at least double the size of
> u-boot, u-boot needs a diet ;)

This may or may not be safe. Some systems (for example, PowerPC) uses
low RAM for exception vectors, and you definitely don;t want to mess
with these.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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