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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] how big is the NOR flash on 85xx boards?
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:25:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090810212520.58C05833DBD2@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07DA25C3-1F4F-431E-BF8A-61C11CD4113B@kernel.crashing.org>

Dear Kumar Gala,

In message <07DA25C3-1F4F-431E-BF8A-61C11CD4113B@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> 
> I'm asking this just see if we bump up in size if it should be to 768k  
> or 1M.  While this doesn't directly impact the TQM or XES boards I  
> just wanted to get a sense of how much flash people are putting on  
> boards today to see if 1M is a burden or in the noise w/regards to the  
> size of things.

So far we have many systems that are well below 256 kB.  512  kB  al-
ready seems to a a LOT for just a boot loader. Yes, features like UBI
and  graphics support cost a price, but these are still non-standard,
right?

> My desire is if we support a different size on 8536DS that its a size  
> other boards would be ok with if they needed to grow.

I think this is only a Freescale internal issue.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-10 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-10 19:07 [U-Boot] how big is the NOR flash on 85xx boards? Kumar Gala
2009-08-10 19:26 ` Peter Tyser
2009-08-10 19:48 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-08-10 20:17   ` Kumar Gala
2009-08-10 21:25     ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2009-08-10 21:35       ` Kumar Gala

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