From: Aneesh V <aneesh@ti.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] BSS footprint of FAT very high - SPL issues
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:48:17 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D47C1C9.1020002@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110201075521.60484B187@gemini.denx.de>
Dear Wolfgang,
On Tuesday 01 February 2011 01:25 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Aneesh V,
>
> In message<4D4798E2.3050500@ti.com> you wrote:
>>
>> I had been working on creating an MMC SPL for OMAP4. OMAP boards
>> typically support booting from the FAT partition of a removable SD/MMC
>> card. So, we need to have FAT support in the SPL. But I am having some
>> difficulties in adding FAT support to SPL.
>>
>> BSS footprint of fat.c is very high. It has three buffers each of size
>> 64KB. To workaround this problem I have done something like below(The
>> way x-loader works around this problem today).
>> CONFIG_SYS_SPL_FAT_BUFFER_BASE is in SDRAM.Is this ok?
>
> Why would that be necessary? Just put the BSS segment in SDRAM, and
> everything is fine, isn't it?
SDRAM is initialized by the SPL. So, bss can not be initialized and
used until SDRAM initialization is complete. I would prefer to have
rest of the bss in internal RAM so that it's available as soon as we
enter C code.
>
>> Also, I was wondering why we need 3 such scratch buffers in this
>> implementation. I do not understand this code. But I was wondering if we
>> could work with just one 64K buffer?
>
> I have no idea. I am not familiar with that code either.
Probably I will give it a try once I solve some other issues I am
facing in getting FAT to work.
Best regards,
Aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-01 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-01 5:23 [U-Boot] BSS footprint of FAT very high - SPL issues Aneesh V
2011-02-01 6:52 ` Bedia, Vaibhav
2011-02-01 7:58 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-01 8:26 ` Aneesh V
2011-02-01 8:35 ` Bedia, Vaibhav
2011-02-01 10:05 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-01 10:18 ` Bedia, Vaibhav
2011-02-01 10:48 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-01 12:43 ` Bedia, Vaibhav
2011-02-01 13:27 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-01 10:53 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-11 21:16 ` Ulf Samuelsson
2011-02-11 22:15 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-13 21:40 ` Ulf Samuelsson
2011-09-28 20:28 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-12 6:13 ` Aneesh V
2011-02-01 7:04 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-01 7:11 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-01 8:00 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-01 8:27 ` Aneesh V
2011-02-01 7:55 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-01 8:18 ` Aneesh V [this message]
2011-02-01 8:48 ` Bedia, Vaibhav
2011-02-01 10:03 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-02 13:17 ` Aneesh V
2011-02-02 13:37 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-02 14:01 ` Aneesh V
2011-02-02 15:14 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-03 10:38 ` Aneesh V
2011-02-05 6:58 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-11 6:28 ` Aneesh V
2011-02-11 6:39 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-11 6:57 ` Aneesh V
2011-02-11 8:15 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-11 8:27 ` Aneesh V
2011-02-02 21:01 ` Graeme Russ
2011-02-03 7:01 ` Aneesh V
2011-02-03 10:05 ` Graeme Russ
2011-02-03 6:49 ` sughosh ganu
2011-02-03 7:22 ` Aneesh V
2011-02-15 8:44 ` Mike Frysinger
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