[U-Boot] Current u-boot memory mapping
Tom Rini
trini at ti.com
Mon Oct 29 19:13:06 CET 2012
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 08:17:00PM +0900, RgC wrote:
[snip]
> My understanding is that after relocation no area between the bottom
> and the top of RAM is reserved. We can use it freely. Is this correct?
Basically, yes. You can use 'bdinfo' to see what / where things are
being used at run-time.
> If writing to the the "free area" in RAM results in crashing u-boot
> then there is problem in the relocation procedure or a possible linker
> script problem.
Well, it depends on how you trigger that crash. If you're writing near
where U-Boot is running you can overwrite yourself pretty easily. If
you aren't, then are you sure you've configured your memory controller
correctly?
--
Tom
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