[U-Boot] Avoiding reload on ARM U-BOOT

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 20:34:37 CET 2012


> Hello everyone
> 
> im trying to port u-boot 2011-09 to a new board with an arm based SOC
> 
> i found that u-boot will always relocate the code even if it is placed
> already in DDR which is the case with my SOC.

The u-boot is always relocated to the end of the DRAM, which is likely what you 
want. And it's quite a quick process. So if you are manufacturing your soc with 
various size of RAM, you want the relocation to happen. What SoC is that anyway?

> 
> is there any clean way to avoid relocating the u-boot ? does the various
> SPL configs have something to do with that ?

Not really and you don't want this to happen.

M

> 
> if yes which one should i define ?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Yehuda


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