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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: "Leonid" <Leonid@a-k-a.net>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: uboot environment variables size for Yosemite board.
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:00:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060717070018.21ED1353C61@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:09:04 PDT." <FAB00A8DC59FAB42B13C2B3B0F6877010D14478B@ehost011-3.exch011.intermedia.net>

In message <FAB00A8DC59FAB42B13C2B3B0F6877010D14478B@ehost011-3.exch011.intermedia.net> you wrote:
> 
> I'm using uboot-1.1.4 for AMCC PPC440E Yosemite board. I've downloaded

Note that this is off topic here. You should have posted this on  the
U-Boot-Users mailing list instead.

> this uboot from DENX site. It uses EEPROM to store environment
> variables. Since EEPROM on Yosemite board is only 512 bytes, there can
> not be more environment variables which is not very convenient.

Thisi s wrong. The Yosemite configuration uses (like most (all?) AMCC
eval boards - two redundand flash sectors to store  the  environment.
And available environment size is 8 kB:

	=> print
	...
	Environment size: 1355/8187 bytes

> There is theoretical possibility to save these variables on flash (64M
> from which I use only part) and yosemite.h header file even has defines,
> allowing this option. But is it going work in reality? What is simplest
> way for Yosemite board to increase environment variables storage space?

I have no idea where you got your board configuration from, but it is
definitely   not   current   code,   nor   the   binary   image    at
ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/amcc/yosemite/u-boot.bin

The current code does use (redundand) flash for environment storage.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-17  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-17  5:09 uboot environment variables size for Yosemite board Leonid
2006-07-17  7:00 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2006-07-17 11:02   ` John Otken

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