[U-Boot] arch/powerpc/lib/board.c:get_effective_memsize() for 4GB+ systems

Robert Thorhuus robert.thorhuus at ericsson.com
Fri Sep 21 15:34:26 CEST 2012


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timur Tabi [mailto:timur at freescale.com] 
> Sent: den 21 september 2012 15:30
> To: Robert Thorhuus
> Cc: 'Kumar Gala'; u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] 
> arch/powerpc/lib/board.c:get_effective_memsize() for 4GB+ systems
> 
> Robert Thorhuus wrote:
> 
> > Still I wonder why the choice was made to have U-Boot 
> relocate in high 
> > memory rather than low memory and also not making it easy 
> to configure 
> > the relocation.
> 
> U-Boot relocates in high memory so that you can load your 
> operating system at address 0.
> 
> --
> Timur Tabi
> Linux kernel developer at Freescale

Ok.
BR
Robert


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