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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] ALERT! >90% of all board configurations BROKEN
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:40:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101026094054.41CD4152451@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC6909F.4060503@emk-elektronik.de>

Dear Reinhard Meyer,

In message <4CC6909F.4060503@emk-elektronik.de> you wrote:
> Dear Albert ARIBAUD,
> 
> >> That is #ifdef-ed away in case of ARM-relocation. Perhaps we should remove
> >> all code that pertains to "WITHOUT_RELOC"... Would make the rest of the code
> >> less obscure...
> > 
> >> I changed my board.config like this:
> >> ...
> >> /*#define CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_SIZE 128*/	/* 128 bytes for initial data */
> >> ...
> >> #define	CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_ADDR		(CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE + 0x1000 /*- CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_SIZE*/)
> 
> I must confess I copied that #define from other boards without much reasoning about it:)

I just mentioned it in another mail: there is lots of confusion in
this area, and little common code. I will try to remove all of this.
All we need is the address and size of the initial RAM area; all the
rest can (now) be automatically calculated.  Patches are in the works.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-26  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-25 20:00 [U-Boot] ALERT! >90% of all board configurations BROKEN Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-25 20:28 ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-25 22:07   ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-26  0:11     ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-26  6:31       ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-26  8:26         ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-26  9:40           ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2010-10-26  6:39   ` Heiko Schocher

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