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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tnt.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Linux on MPC5200 - LITE5200EVAL & New bestcomm code ?
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:03:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040303080332.0EA92C0655@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:34:36 +0100." <40458A8C.8020009@246tNt.com>


In message <40458A8C.8020009@246tNt.com> you wrote:
>
> and it works just fine ... Apparently when the kernel was too big, the
> area near 100000 is probably used by u-boot in some way, maybe during

Well, it is not used by U-Boot itself, but when you have a big  Linux
kernel it starts overwriting itself when you uncompress it to address
0.

> software issue. Maybe u-boot should give some warning about that ( if
> it's the cause, not yet sure ). But that's off topic here.

U-Boot does not know the uncompressed size in advance. And  anyway  -
it's  a  pilot  error  :-)  In modification of anmother famous quote:
"U-Boot was not designed  to  stop  you  from  doing  stupid  things,
because that would also stop you from doing clever things."

> Now, I'm just looking forward for new BestComm code, to get AC97 and IDE
> DMA running ( quite slow and CPU intensive right now ... ).

:-(

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-03  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <402E0D8C.4080801@246tNt.com>
2004-02-14 14:53 ` Linux on MPC5200 - LITE5200EVAL Wolfgang Denk
2004-02-14 18:04   ` Sylvain Munaut
2004-03-03  7:34     ` Linux on MPC5200 - LITE5200EVAL & New bestcomm code ? Sylvain Munaut
2004-03-03  8:03       ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2004-02-17  1:08   ` Linux on MPC5200 - LITE5200EVAL Dale Farnsworth

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