[U-Boot] [RFC] [PATCH] arm: arm926ejs: use ELF relocations

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Graeme Russ,

In message <AANLkTikqE0_DEqHs-tX3A4XuEXJhM0CYW_+j6izhmktw at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> Can NAND SPL initialise and size memory before loading U-Boot into RAM?

It has to. You cannot load into and run from uninitialized RAM ;-)

> If so, could the relocation code be added to NAND SPL so only one copy
> operation is performed?

I'm afraid it cannot, due to size limitations. The NAND loader often
hast to fit into as little a 2 or 4 KiB...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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