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

Stefano Babic sbabic at denx.de
Sun Feb 5 16:09:47 CET 2012


On 05/02/2012 15:22, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> Hello again
>>
>> Sorry for slipping the u-boot list e-mail address
>>
>> i understand the benefit of relocating u-boot to the end of DRAM but in
>> systems where boot time is critical this redundant copy is undesirable.
>> anyway i understand there is no official way of avoiding it.
> 
> You can boot linux directly via SPL if your boottime is critical.

To this purpose I have posted the final version of the patchset to boot
Linux directly from SPL - maybe you can try this way on your hardware.

Best regards,
Stefano Babic

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