[U-Boot] (imp) uboot image size

Wolfgang Denk
2010-07-14T20:53:40Z

Dear Albert ARIBAUD,

In message <4C3E135B.7040403@free.fr> you wrote:
>
> Even if your "golden", uboot1 and uboot2 bootloaders are all full-blown
> u-boots, you still don't need to change their TEXT_BASE: just make sur
> uboot{1,2} have CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT defined, and that "golden"

Be careful.

CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT is an ARM specific thing, and I am almost
sure that Sagar is on a PowerPC systems.

> either go'es to their Flash entry point or copies them from Flash to
> somewhere free in RAM then go'es there: in any case, they will relocate
> themselves over "golden" -- this overloading works, I use it routinely
> on my ED Mini V2.

Be careful again. Do you really mean "relocate" here? And
"overloading" a running image is definitely NOT a safe operation.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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