[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/7] dm: at91: Correct text base for snapper9260

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Oct 23 22:10:11 CEST 2014


Hi Andreas,

On 22 October 2014 23:21, Andreas Bießmann <andreas.devel at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 23.10.14 07:12, Simon Glass wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Oct 22, 2014 11:10 PM, "Andreas Bießmann"
>> <andreas.devel at googlemail.com <mailto:andreas.devel at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> It also seems the maintainer of snapper9260 is not reachable. Simon, do
>>> you own such a board?
>>
>> Yes I have one.
>
> so would you take maintainer-ship?

OK.

>
>> The base address is to make the maximum amount of room
>> for loading the kernel, etc.
>
> Well, the base address is just used for the temporary copy of u-boot
> inside RAM. After copy from media to RAM we will relocate to a runtime
> defined address. This address depends on some variable parameters which
> may also be defined at runtime. We had the problem that in some cases
> the calculated relocation address collates with running u-boot in RAM.
> The chance to hit this issue is high when you just have room of 1 MiB
> (which must hold two copies of u-boot!)

Ah yes of course :-) I'm not sure about the pre-boot but will see if I
can change it.

Regards,
Simon


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