[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] fix the ARM memory layout

Kyle Harris
2003-11-13T14:19:16Z

Hi All,

On Thursday 13 November 2003 04:14 am, Anders Larsen wrote:

> Kyle Harris <kharris@nexus-tech.net> schreibt:
> >On Wednesday 12 November 2003 12:23 pm, Anders Larsen wrote:
> >> This has the positive side-effect of actually allow U-Boot to run on
> >> PXA- and IXP-based targets; the current implementation sets up the heap
> >> using bogus addresses causing u-boot to crash (this even applies to the
> >> recently added board "ixdp425").
> >
> >I don't disagree that memory layout for ARM is broken. But, I've never
> >seen a
> >crash on any of my Xscale boards, including a couple of new ones based on
> >ixdp425 and cradle.
>
> Hi Kyle,
>
> Do you by any chance happen to have RAM at and around address
> 0x0badc0de ? Otherwise I don't see how PXA/IXP could possible work,
> for the reasons Richard already gave.
> (see also http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/schroedinbug.html ;-)

Yeh, I don't doubt there is a problem. I guess I need to take a closer look
and see why it works. But finding the time to work on something that actually
already works is difficult...(got plenty of stuff that doesn't work to keep
me busy).

> (BTW, I recognize you've contributed significantly to the PXA
> implementation I'm relying on and I'd like to thank you for that).

You're welcome. But all I did was put the framework in place so that you and
Richard and others can make it work correctly ;)

Kyle.