From: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] microblaze: Replace CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_SIZE by auto-generated value (25ddd1fb0a2281b182529afbc8fda5de2dc16d96)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:25:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D109CA6.3010502@monstr.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101221104843.7C36DB715C@gemini.denx.de>
Dear Wolfgang,
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Michal,
>
> In message <4D106994.10307@monstr.eu> you wrote:
>> Maybe will be worth to take a look at monitor,malloc area and stack.
>>
>> Microblaze uses:
>> end of ram
>> bd 0x40
>> gd 0x40
>> monitor area
>> malloc area
>> stack (grows down)
>>
>> Is it OK to use this scheme?
>
> Sure. You can basicly define this as you like; the general idea is
> described in the README; normally we will reserve (dynamically, i. e.
> as needed) space for PRAM, shared log buffer and/or video frame
> buffer at the upper end of memory, so I would locate bd and gd and
> the rest below that - but you don;t support these features so far for
> microblaze, then above is fine.
I hope that we will support some of these feature in near future.
>
> I just would use sizeof() instead of fixed sizes (which tend to be
> wrong sometimes ;-)
of course. There are some references to asm which needs to be resolve at
first.
>
>> I can easily fix this to previous state but will be good to synchronize
>> this across archs.
>
> If you are looking for a reference, use arch/powerpc/lib/board.c,
> starting here:
>
> 394 /*
> 395 * Now that we have DRAM mapped and working, we can
> 396 * relocate the code and continue running from DRAM.
> 397 *
> 398 * Reserve memory at end of RAM for (top down in that order):
> 399 * - area that won't get touched by U-Boot and Linux (optional)
> 400 * - kernel log buffer
> 401 * - protected RAM
> 402 * - LCD framebuffer
> 403 * - monitor code
> 404 * - board info struct
> 405 */
>
Thanks,
Michal
--
Michal Simek, Ing. (M.Eng)
w: www.monstr.eu p: +42-0-721842854
Maintainer of Linux kernel 2.6 Microblaze Linux - http://www.monstr.eu/fdt/
Microblaze U-BOOT custodian
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-21 8:47 [U-Boot] microblaze: Replace CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_SIZE by auto-generated value (25ddd1fb0a2281b182529afbc8fda5de2dc16d96) Michal Simek
2010-12-21 10:48 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-12-21 12:25 ` Michal Simek [this message]
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