[U-Boot] Question about relocation

Alessandro Rubini rubini-list at gnudd.com
Sun Apr 17 03:19:39 CEST 2011


Hello.
I'm trying to make at91sam9261ek working again, but relocation
overlaps the destinatin address.

In this board, u-boot runs already in RAM. This is exactly like the
nhk8815 that I ported a few hours ago, but while there the IPL
loaded our code at the beginning of RAM, in this case the IPL
loaded us already at end of RAM.

Now, this is the printout of the situation:

    U-Boot code: 23F00000 -> 23F36EFC  BSS: -> 23F78570
    monitor len: 00078570
    ramsize: 04000000
    TLB table at: 23ff0000
    Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 23ff0000
    Reserving 481k for U-Boot at: 23f64000
    Reserving 180k for malloc() at: 23f37000
    Reserving 24 Bytes for Board Info at: 23f36fe8
    Reserving 144 Bytes for Global Data at: 23f36f58
    New Stack Pointer is: 23f36f50
    RAM Configuration:
    Bank #0: 20000000 64 MiB
    relocation Offset is: 00064000

Since "tor len: 00078570" and "relocation Offset is: 00064000" the
system data-aborts during relocation, as code overwrites relocation
tables.

What is the suggested solution? Changing the IPL is not acceptable for
me, because it is an external tool used by everyone: everybody knows
it loads and runs code at 23f0.0000.

Thanks
/alessandro


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