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

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Feb 11 23:15:23 CET 2011


Dear Ulf Samuelsson,

In message <4D55A73C.6090404 at atmel.com> you wrote:
>
> The way this problem is fixed on the AT91 is to run at91bootstrap first.
> This program will initialize the SDRAM and copy u-boot to SDRAM.
> at91bootstrap fits into 4 kB of code, and a small amount of RAM,
> so it will run on real small CPUs.

In mainline U-Boot we tend to use nand_spl instead.  There should be
no need for such externel, out-of-tree code.

Thanks.

Wolfgang Denk

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