[U-Boot] [PATCH] board_f: Only reserve memory for U-Boot if we're going to relocate

Alexey Brodkin Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com
Tue Feb 20 16:28:55 UTC 2018


Hi Simon,

On Sun, 2018-02-04 at 06:40 -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Alexey,
> 
> On 25 January 2018 at 10:56, Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com> wrote:
> > In case of no relocation we'll just waste some paceat the very end
> 
> space at?

Sure, thanks for pointing out!

> 
> > of usable memory area. If U-Boot is huge and we cannot use a lot of memory this
> 
> What do you mean by 'U-Boot is huge'? How huge, and why would it be huge?

I was talking about relative sizes of U-Boot compared to available RAM.
Consider we have less than 1 Mb of RAM and U-Boot's size is ~200 kB - in that
case looking 20% of RAM is not what we really want.

In more typical case when we have tens, hundreds or thousands of megabytes of RAM
essentially loosing even another megabyte makes not much sense :)


-Alexey


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