[U-Boot] Help with Glomation GESBC-9G20

[Andreas Bießmann]

On 06/24/2013 10:22 AM, Bo Shen wrote:
> Hi Larry Baker,
> 
> On 6/24/2013 16:02, Larry Baker wrote:
>> I have found why the latest U-Boot does not work on my Glomation
>> GESBC-9G20 board.  Two causes: a bad code text segment address
>> (prevents U-Boot from executing) and bad flash partition offsets
>> (prevents U-Boot from reading its environment variables).  The latter
>> I assume is common, as the flash partition layout can vary.  The
>> former has to do with where the primary boot loader expects to find
>> U-Boot's entry point.  The primary boot loader comes from Atmel, I
>> believe, and I assume does not change.  Yet, the 2011.06 release of
>> U-Boot changed that address.  (FYI: the two immediately preceding
>> releases, 2010.12 and 2011.03, fail to compile with configuration
>> errors.  There were definitely changes taking place during that time
>> with the Atmel AT91SAM U-Boot code.)  That may be a bug.  I don't know
>> who the authority on that question would be.  If it is decided the
>> U-Boot code text segment address is incorrect, it wold be nice to fix
>> that in the upcoming release.  (If there is time
> .)
> 
> For the text base, why we use 0x21f00000 instead of 0x23f00000 is that,
> the memory only 64MiB on at91sam9g20ek board, if use 0x23f00000 as the
> text base, there is only 1MiB reserved for u-boot use. So, we move down
> to let more space for u-boot.
> 
> For the NAND partition, as to the u-boot grow bigger and bigger, so we
> reserve more space for it.
> 
> BTW, when you upgrade the u-boot, please also upgrade the bootstrap. we
> always keep the update bootstrap work with mainline u-boot properly.

... we really should force SPL for at91