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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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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