[U-Boot] Is it possible to load the uboot.bin file to RAM area instead FLASH?

Lei Wen adrian.wenl at gmail.com
Sun Feb 13 14:41:03 CET 2011


On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Madhavi Manchala
<madhavi.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
>> Dear Lei Wen,
>>
>> In message <AANLkTin7zsxVqjKp1Htovf44mtfkNsJR2DF9bSBkTBFR at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>>
>>> If your sdram is large enough, or the uboot code is small enough, you don't need
>>> the dram init. But begin at the TEXT_BASE still is a must.
>>
>> Hugh?  You _always_ must make sure the RAM has been initialized first.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Wolfgang Denk
>
> Dear Wolfgang Denk and Lei,
>
> Thanks for your information.
>
> I build one u-boot.bin file for smdk2410 configuration. However, when
> I try to load through JTAG, I am seeing the following error.
>
> invalid download offset u-boot.bin
>
> Am I doing any thing wrong? I set RAM BASE address as 0x00000000 in
> the confiuration file as our board RAM starts from there only. Shall I
> need to modify any thing in the config file?
>
No idea...
That info message should not be printed by your uboot.
Maybe you should refer to someone expert for your jtag to solve this...

Best regads,
Lei


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