From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Can u-Boot Ran from RAM?
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 11:11:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201202011111.09465.marek.vasut@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201201311015.31431.vapier@gentoo.org>
> On Monday 30 January 2012 23:07:05 Bud Miljkovic wrote:
> > While getting acquainted with possible u-Boot development issues, I read
> > FAQ "14.2.1. Can U-Boot be configured such that it can be started in
> > RAM?" and was puzzled to learn that u-Boot cannot run from RAM.
>
> you misread it. the question is for people who have loaded u-boot, and
> then want to load another copy of u-boot into ram and then execute that
> directly.
>
> so the question is "can u-boot be *started in ram*" and the answer is "no".
The answer is "yes if you know how to do it" ;-)
> normally u-boot is bootstrapped from non-ram storage (via a bootrom, or
> some bit of code being latched in at a hardcoded address, or some other
> cpu-specific magic).
> -mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-01 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-31 4:07 [U-Boot] Can u-Boot Ran from RAM? Bud Miljkovic
2012-01-31 14:12 ` Eric Nelson
2012-02-01 10:12 ` Marek Vasut
2012-02-01 10:27 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-01-31 15:15 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-02-01 10:11 ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2012-02-01 10:26 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-02-01 10:58 ` Marek Vasut
2012-02-02 21:40 ` [U-Boot] Porting YAFFS2 to U-boot Bud Miljkovic
2012-02-02 22:14 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-02-02 22:19 ` Charles Manning
2012-02-03 3:34 ` Peter Barada
2012-02-03 5:26 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-02-06 22:37 ` [U-Boot] Can u-Boot Ran from RAM? Bud Miljkovic
2012-02-01 2:11 ` Charles Manning
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