[U-Boot] [RFC]: always relocate u-boot before the framebuffer
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Sat Jan 5 20:18:13 CET 2013
Dear Jeroen,
In message <50E7FB65.9000709 at myspectrum.nl> you wrote:
>
> > Hm... I'm not sure if this is the right approach, then. If mainline
> > Linux insists on such a 2 MB alignment, we shoud rather teach
> > lcd_setmem() to follow tha rule, too. That should solve the problem
> > as well (and probably more efficiently, especially if other features
> > like pRAM or shared log buffer reserve high memory as well).
> >
> I just noticed this is already possible since the recently introduced
> dcache for lcd.c also adds a CONFIG_LCD_ALIGNMENT. Since I am at
> rc2 I had not seen it yet.
Ah, so we have a working solution already in place? Excellent.
Do you think you have a chance to test if this works for you, too?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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