[U-Boot] BSS footprint of FAT very high - SPL issues

[Bedia, Vaibhav]

On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 1:57 PM, V, Aneesh wrote:
> Hi Vaibhav,
> 
[...]
>> 
>> I guess you will hit a similar issue with the networking related
>> code is used (I am not sure if SPL uses it). That also requires a
>> decent size of bss.  
> 
> Luckily we don't need networking related code in SPL.

It might be required later on :)

> 
>> 
>> Is having a config option to specify the location of bss (like
>> CONFIG_SYS_BSS_ADDR) better/acceptable? 
> 
> I would prefer to have rest of the BSS in internal RAM itself.

Instead of adding workarounds for each driver I think putting BSS in SDRAM as pointed out by Wolfgang is better.

Regards,
Vaibhav