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

[Bedia, Vaibhav]

On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 4:19 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
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> That would be way outside of how U-Boot is supposed to work: the
> assumption is that the SPL and U-Boot itself are present on-board
> anyway -- the rationale being that the board should be able to get
> to the U-Boot prompt with only the console attached.  

Ok. Thanks for the clarification.

In that case how can network boot be supported in U-Boot? Is the expectation that the SPL image which gets downloaded to internal RAM inits SDRAM, relocates to it and then download any other image like a larger U-Boot or the OS image?

Regards,
Vaibhav