[U-Boot] [RFC]: always relocate u-boot before the framebuffer

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sat Dec 29 22:50:23 CET 2012


Dear Jeroen Hofstee,

In message <20121229211050.3249f8b7 at black> you wrote:
> 
> My apologies, I pasted half the patch, the intention is to always
> set addr = gd->fb_base. 

No, this is not correct.  If CONFIG_FB_ADDR is set, then it will
usually points to the start address of an on on-chip video memory
region.  There will be no RAM below this aread to relocate U-Boot to, 
i. e. you patch will break a number of systems.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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