[U-Boot] [PATCH] pm9263: save environment at the NOR Flash end

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Sep 12 20:39:56 CEST 2011


Dear Asen Chavdarov Dimov,

In message <1315847907-28519-1-git-send-email-dimov at ronetix.at> you wrote:
> This patch moves the sector for the environment from the gap between U-Boot
> and the Linux kernel to the end of the NOR flash and this way lets the U-Boot
> rom file to increase a little bit when adding functionality.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Asen Chavdarov Dimov <dimov at ronetix.at>
> ---
>  include/configs/pm9263.h |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/configs/pm9263.h b/include/configs/pm9263.h
> index 1e282d2..f1bd389 100644
> --- a/include/configs/pm9263.h
> +++ b/include/configs/pm9263.h
> @@ -340,9 +340,11 @@
>  #elif defined(CONFIG_SYS_USE_FLASH) /* CFG_USE_FLASH */
>  
>  #define CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH	1
> -#define CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET	0x40000
>  #define CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE	0x10000
>  #define	CONFIG_ENV_SIZE		0x10000
> +#define NORFLASH_SIZE		0x400000 /* 4MiB */
> +#define CONFIG_ENV_ADDR		(CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE + NORFLASH_SIZE - \
> +				CONFIG_ENV_SIZE)
>  #define CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE	1

NAK.  You should never define any static memory sizes like
NORFLASH_SIZE.  This is a value that gets automatically detected by
the flash driver.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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