From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:15:30 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] Can u-Boot Ran from RAM? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201201311015.31431.vapier@gentoo.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Monday 30 January 2012 23:07:05 Bud Miljkovic wrote: > While getting acquainted with possible u-Boot development issues, I read > FAQ "14.2.1. Can U-Boot be configured such that it can be started in > RAM?" and was puzzled to learn that u-Boot cannot run from RAM. you misread it. the question is for people who have loaded u-boot, and then want to load another copy of u-boot into ram and then execute that directly. so the question is "can u-boot be *started in ram*" and the answer is "no". normally u-boot is bootstrapped from non-ram storage (via a bootrom, or some bit of code being latched in at a hardcoded address, or some other cpu-specific magic). -mike -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: