[U-Boot-Users] Relocatable U-Boot

[Ulf Samuelsson <ulf@atmel.com>]

>> > > A handful of projects I have worked on use multiple copies of u-boot
>> > > stored in different locations of flash and a small assembly stub
>> > > determines which to boot.  Currently, to do that u-boot has to be
>> > > compiled two different times with different settings to accommodate
>> > > the different base addresses.
>> > >
>> > > Is there a way to use a single build of u-boot which can be placed at
>> > > two different addresses in flash?  That seems to me that it would be a
>> > > useful general feature.
>> >
>> > If you copy your U-Boot to RAM, you can have multiple U-Boots
>> > each linked to the same location.
>> > You need a small utility which runs before U-Boot which
>> > determines which version to use.
>>
>> Hm... yes.  Though I think that is more of a workaround than a truly
>> relocatable u-boot.
> 

I don't think having relocatable U-Boot is a good goal.
Having the possiblility to choose between several different U-boot image is...
Copying the image to SDRAM is one method to do this.
If you don't want to copy to SDRAM, then you can 
enable a MMU (when this is available) as an alternative.


Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson