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From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:25:05 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] Separately compile Master boot loader
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Hi Wolfgang,

On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:08:19 +0200, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:

> Dear Albert,
> 
> In message <20130711103507.48bd224f@lilith> you wrote:
> > 
> > SPL has never been used for NOR FLASH booting, since basically if you
> > have NOR, then you can start U-boot directly from there whatever its
> > size, and the first thing it does is setting up DDR and relocating
> > there; therefore there is (currently) no need for SPL with NOR.
> 
> This is not correct.  SPL on NOR is in no way special from SPL on
> other boot devices.  We have successfully used SPL (in Falcon mode) on
> NOR flash to reduce boot times.  for example, the MPC5200 (PPC) based
> a4m2k board uses SPL on NOR; see include/configs/a3m071.h

Apologies for my mistake.

Amicalement,
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Albert.