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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC]: always relocate u-boot before the framebuffer
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:50:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121229215023.1BAF2200FAC@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121229211050.3249f8b7@black>

Dear Jeroen Hofstee,

In message <20121229211050.3249f8b7@black> you wrote:
> 
> My apologies, I pasted half the patch, the intention is to always
> set addr = gd->fb_base. 

No, this is not correct.  If CONFIG_FB_ADDR is set, then it will
usually points to the start address of an on on-chip video memory
region.  There will be no RAM below this aread to relocate U-Boot to, 
i. e. you patch will break a number of systems.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-29 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-29 19:31 [U-Boot] [RFC]: always relocate u-boot before the framebuffer Jeroen Hofstee
2012-12-29 20:10 ` Jeroen Hofstee
2012-12-29 21:50   ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2012-12-29 21:47 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-12-31 14:33 ` Lukasz Majewski
2012-12-31 14:54   ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-01-02 15:48     ` Tom Rini
2013-01-02 20:17       ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-01-03 10:27         ` Jeroen Hofstee
2013-01-03 10:41           ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-01-03 18:10             ` Jeroen Hofstee
2013-01-03 20:28               ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-01-04 20:29                 ` Jeroen Hofstee
2013-01-05 10:07                 ` Jeroen Hofstee
2013-01-05 19:18                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-01-03 10:43         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] VIDEO: better document the correct use of CONFIG_FB_ADDR Wolfgang Denk
2013-01-14 19:29           ` Anatolij Gustschin

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